[quote=FlyerInHi]That professor’s study is like asking would you rather have a dog or contribute to end child hunger, if you had only one choice. Thankfully, we have many choices.
My own personal experience is that good dog owners are kinder people.
Also, aren’t humans eternally in search of feel good moments and flattery? All the better if a dog fulfills some of that.[/quote]
no. you are wrong. flat, dead, profoundly, foolishly, misreading, thickheadedly WRONG.
the question is not whether you will end hunger, or lose money. you wont. your dog is presumably worth nothing monetarily
you are only asked whether this thing, this animal, similar to animals you merrily chow down upon every day of the week…
(not because you must, but merely because it tickles your palate, because you like the taste of charred animal flesh, grease not unlike the grease of your dogs fat dribbling down your chin, merely because you find it satiating)
whetehr this particular animal you like is worth more than a human.
The question is; is a dog you own worth more than a man you dont.
there’s nothing about hunger or losing money, there’s no “false choice”….
dog.
man.
your plaything.
a fellow human.
no cost to you. zero loss…y
say hypotehtically youget another coupledozen dogs free, say, pick your fav, dump back the rest….probably wouldnt matter. people would still pick their own attachment to their own particular pooch.
with no monetary value.
over a living fellow human being on the planet…
im sorry. that’s cold. that’s fucked up. that’s not cool. even if the person is an asshole…but the example is NOT that the eprson’s an asshole. the question is a random person, an unknown person to you…
i mean, put yourself in the place of the parent of the random person selected. you learn some douchebag with a 12 year old half blind german shepherd elected to save her companion animal rather than your beautiful, smart, lovely 6 year old daughter. sorry, francois, your daughter, must die because i cannot bear the thought of an early separation from my dear Scruffy.
On what FUCKING planet is that ok? On what basis could one begin to justify such a choice , evern if you and your daughter are “foreigners? the question is not about a bad person and a dog, the question is about a morally unknwon person and a dog.
On what planet does the parent of the child, if all this is known, not go find the dog owner and kill them?
i could understand wanting to hold on to 100$ more than I could holding on to a dog….this self love, this affection for ones slave…i mean…it is not morally defensible…
it is based on a mass psychosis that our dogs are our freinds. theya re not…they are dogs…they sing for their meal. they do not love you…stop feeding your dog, for a month and have your neigjbor feed it tbone foramonth. see where the dogs affections lie….with the food….and the neighbor who are you again????
