Would you rather save the life of 1 human being or the life of 50 dogs?
Context is kingI currently (by my actions) value the life of one cat over the lives of many humans.While our pet cat provides some utility (she keeps the mouse and rat population in check and she is comfortable to stroke at night) she costs money to feed and vaccinate on an annual basis.This money could instead go to Save the Children or MSF and make a huge difference to the lives of others. (Yes, I help fund these charities, but that is irrelevant, for the cost of the cat I could fund them incrementally more).However, I’d kill a thousand pet cats, dogs, whales, cute fluffy bunnies to protect my children.So to me, some cats (or dogs) have move value than some humans, some humans have more value than any cats (or dogs).Similarly, by my actions, I also seem to value one latte $2.00 over the life of a foreign child dying from a preventable disease.The polio vaccine costs $0.12 a two drop dose.https://secure.msf.org.uk/donate...
Would you rather save your dog's life or a human stranger's?
Dogs, humans are twats
Would you rather save your pet or a random stranger out of a river?
I'm the size of a pre-teen girl and I'm not a strong swimmer. Neither is my dog. Like a lot of Boxer dogs who don't have swimming experience, my dog sinks like a stone underwater. He would probably be sitting underneath the water right next to the bank, where I could reach in from the shore and lift him out by his collar. Whereas, if I went IN to save a panicked person, they would probably end up drowning ME along with themselves as well.I will need to save my dog, in order to preserve my own life, in this instance. I would not face legal consequences for not being a certified lifeguard. No court in the Nation expects me to put my own life at risk in order to save that of another if it is not physically possible to do so.In the meantime, I would try to throw a floating device to the person out in the current. I'm not completely heartless. I'm just a realist when it comes to survival situations. Certainly, it would be lovely to be a hero but then again, there is a psychological reason there are so few heroes among us.
Would you rather kill your dog or a human?
So my best friend asked me today if i was forced to kill a human which i didn't know or my dog, who would i kill. I quickly said the human! Now you may think im crazy but i love my dog as if it were my child, it sleeps in my bed, i cook and extra plate for her, i take her on my runs ect.
Would you rather save a puppy or your best friend from a fire?
Dude, you’re kidding me, right?There’s tons of words I could use to describe Jared.Quite a few of them aren’t pleasant, because he can have rather foul inclinations or places of mind that make him, inevitably, seem like a much worse person than he actually is. Or there’s certain circumstances that actually turn him into a right bastard at times, which only serves to add to those words.I think we’re both aware of this, to be honest.But you know what’s one word I’d never use to describe him?Heartless.Our love of animals was actually what drew us together, and has been the cementing reason above all else that keeps us a compatible friendship despite the twists and turns it often tends to have, and the general tumultuous nature of it.Where am I going with this?Puppies are loud when they’re distressed.I’m pretty sure being stuck in a fire would make them uneasy, fearful, terrified, and loud.And I have absolutely no doubt that should a situation such as this ever arise, I’ll stumble in to see him clutching onto that dang puppy for dear life, because he heard the howls and had come running.There won’t be a choice.He’ll have sorted it out for me by forcibly bringing it out with us.
Would you rather save a dog or a robot that is almost identical as humans but not the appearance?
I really don’t care how advanced you make the tech.Even if in some life threatening situation I don’t manage to get to the robot in time, you can repair it. You can fix it, make it better, or have it’s system running somewhere else.(That’s plausible, isn’t it? Having the robot’s internal system backed up on something else? I don’t know much about technology, I’m afraid, and it kinda sounds like it could be a thing if we ever advanced it that far.)It’s an easy fix, in other words.Once that dog is gone, it’s gone.You can’t bring that back.Nobody can, because as far as I’m concerned, legitimate necromancers don’t exist.Also, it’s an animal.I like animals better than people, or people-like beings.The dog wins.
Would you rather save your dog or a stranger's child from a burning building?
Funny how I was thinking this exact thing to myself earlier in the evening.Under all values,human life is a priority above anything else.A dog or any pet,no matter how beloved cannot be compared to human life even if it belongs to the child of a stranger.I am the most avid animal lover that I know of and I love my cat the dearest.He is my comrade,my flower child,my aggressive fur ball.But if I ever find myself in the grip of a circumstance that you’ve described above,I wouldn’t think twice about saving my cat while leaving a a child die a miserable death.I can’t imagine clutching my cat with a lifespan of fifteen years as I run away from the ashen building while a child’s harrowing screams of death echo behind me as the flames engulf him.A child who would have grown to become a person of value,a resourceful human,a successful citizen.While my cat,my darling cat would stay with me for less than two decades with a sole purpose of fulfilling the saying eat,drink and be merry.The guilt of not rescuing my cat would stay with me forever but it would be nothing in comparison to the guilt I’d have to live with if I let the child die.I would save the child.I would always save the human.No matter the religion,race or age even if it means saying goodbye to my fur baby forever.
Would you let a human die in order to save your dog?
Yes, I would without hesitation.And honestly, if someone else had a dog that they absolutely loved and it meant that they had to let me die, I wouldn’t like it obviously but I couldn’t really blame them. Although the whole situation would obviously immensely suck and I’d try to get out of it if possible but I wouldn’t blame them for choosing their dog over a total stranger.It’s choosing a total stranger’s life over your beloved family member. I’d always choose my beloved family member without hesitation.I don’t understand the obsession with putting human life above animal life. They are both living things that want to live. Most humans aren’t going to find the cure to cancer or do anything noteworthy in their life, so the average human’s life isn’t anymore important than an animals.And call me cynical, but I think humans can be so toxic that the chance of a toxic human dying is probably pretty high so I won’t even have to feel that bad. But if it was a “good” person, then I would feel beyond terrible and it would stick with me forever.It would obviously suck but I would absolutely choose my dog over a random human, it’s not even a question. But I do acknowledge that I won’t have the higher moral ground but who cares about that, when it’s my dog’s life I’m talking about.