The thing with the human vs. your dog is because your dog is yours and has a direct impact on your own life. Maybe the world has become a world of selfish bastards, but I’d say I’d do the same if it was something of mine. Heck, it could be my laptop probably and I could care less for the foreign tourist. My laptop gets destroyed, I’m now stuck with coming up with another 1-2k dollars to get a new one and I’m pissed. The tourist is gone, no affect at all on my well being or life, financially or emotionally.
You could say 300 million people from China could simply disappear and I doubt I’d bat an eye…Yes, it’s sad and I’m probably part of the 40% or part of the problem, but….
…people die everyday. Maybe I have a very harsh view of the world, but other people dieing that I don’t know has very little, if ANY impact of my life. Maybe it’s sad there was some earthquake in the Philippines and thousands of people died and all that, but I knew NONE of those people and my own selfish life wasn’t affected at all.
Overall, maybe it’s my general view of society or generally being a product of my environment now, tough life, rough times, etc…or me just being an asshole, who knows, but things that affect you simply has more value than things that don’t. Like trade 1 life you are close to for 2 billion in both China and India and most people would vote to probably get rid of the 2 bil…
They probably think those 2 counties took their jobs too to sweeten the pie…
