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I’ve had two great dogs, and, yes, the choice is very easy for me. I wouldn’t for a second even consider letting a human die before either of those dogs.
I really have trouble believing what I’m hearing here. You think that the average person would blame outsourcing (or whatever) on an individual foreigner and save their dog over that person partially for that reason. The troubling part is that you’re obviously correct.
The average person is a real schmuck.
Let me ask you this, joec and flyerinhi and anybody else who would save their dog:
Say you can only save one of: your dog or a foreign tourist. You save your dog. You find out that the foreign tourist had two kids. Those kids loved him dearly. They cry every night because they miss him so much. Their lives are permanently (negatively) affected by the pain of his death and the lack of his guidance. Not an unlikely scenario at all. Would you feel you’d made the right choice? Would you feel guilty? Would you still (assuming you do now) feel that you were a moral human being? If you’re religious, do you think your god would approve? Would you lose any sleep? Would you ever think about the 12-year-old girl and the 7-year-old boy whose father you let die?[/quote]
1st, as I mentioned before, I don’t have a dog and said in this or another thread that I actually HATE dogs. I can’t stand how out of control I see dogs are in general around the neighborhood. Not to mention them being a financial drain. Didn’t grow up with a dog and don’t see a need for them in my life.
That said, I think my problem is I probably don’t put a huge value on all human life. I KNOW people die every single day, probably every few seconds so someone, while I write this just died…
I am not religious, even though I grew up in a religious household, but if I am to be condemned by god/God, then more power to him for having that power to do his will on me if that’s his desire…
I assume you are religious since that would be a very good reason to save/value all life since that’s what’s taught a lot. At least a human life, from your g[G]od’s eye is more valuable than a dog.
I can’t say how I would feel for 2 little kids, but maybe, the “tourist” killed was actually a child rapist instead? At the end of the day, we can come up with any sob story of who the victim is and I don’t think that was the “point” on the survey. Bottom line are people are schmucks or in my case, a self admitted asshole who doesn’t care for most of the rest of the world perhaps, but again, I think the survey has a lot of truth in how little care most of society has for other society people. This divisive topic sorta clearly states that.
The 40% in the survey and the 46% of women (more women than men) making that choice or feeling this way is clearly a sign that it’s simply probably the society we live in and we’re all a product of our surroundings/environment…
I don’t know if I would lose sleep if it was 2 little kids, but again, what if the tourist was a psycho serial killer? Maybe I would feel like I did society a good thing. Bottom line, a lot of these questions are fun to discuss, but until it happens, I think it’s actually “hard” to see what people will do in actuality.
My main point is that people die every day, I can’t or don’t care to save everyone. We all have our own problems. 1 less person, no matter how dramatic you make it feel, has very little overall impact on your life. That’s my point. Losing your dog will impact you and your kids probably a ton more than some foreigner you or your kids don’t know or don’t care about. I suppose I’d rather not be “inconvenienced” with having to deal with a non-existent dead dog. I don’t have time for that. Of course, if you knew the family, that’s not the same question. I suppose in my case, it doesn’t have to be “foreigner” since I dislike people here just as much as foreigners in general.
In the time it took you to read my message, probably 300-400 people just died. It’s a part of life. Live all you can each day with the people you care about and if it happens, so be it.
