It is purely your own attachment feelings that are valued over the life of the foreign human.
This is what I am sickened by.
I guess I’m not done. Dog owners ime are not vegetarians or particularly animal lovers. They eat pigs and such. They just love the company. They like the way a dog makes them feel. They imagine the dog has a special irreplaceable love for them.
A love they’d likely sell out for a good steak on a regular schedule. I dispute the dog would save you. The dog would be easily distracted from the choice by a squirrel or meat. I’m not even sure a dependent dog slave can meaningfully be said to choose.
but there are other Goddamn dogs. And your dog will move on when u die. Vquickly. Unless you made him super neurotic with your extreme neediness and weird fussing over him. Your dog is a moral vacuum who would equally love an evil owner as a good owner, who would happily accept treats to be trained to rip human babies apart and eat them.
Indeed any loving family pet could be trained to bite and eat human flesh in less than one week.
The foreign tourist, probably not. At least for kibble. For this reason and many more, the dog dies.