As soon as I saw the elephant I knew with perfect certainty that I ought not to shoot him. It is a serious matter to shoot a working elephant — it is comparable to destroying a huge and costly piece of machinery — and obviously one ought not to do it if it can possibly be avoided. And at that distance, peacefully eating, the elephant looked no more dangerous than a cow.
The author compares the elephant to a costly machine because
ivory is very expensive
it can do as much work as an expensive machine
elephants look like big machines
elephants and machines have similar prices
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