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What do you make of people who say they'd save their pet over a human stranger?
ustarion
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Is this natural - after all you have formed a relationship with your pet? Or is it strange to value an animal life over a human life?
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If I had a pet I'd still save a stranger child over my pet.
Having said that if I had to choose I really don't know what I'd do.
Sounds like a wind up to me.
I would bloody hope so!
The pet is a clear winner in my eyes.
No he was deadly serious!
It costs about £1200/yr to keep a dog or cat. There are many charities who claim to be able to save a human life for £1200, so this is presumably a decision which all pet owners could be said to have already taken?
(Of course this also applies to anything that we spend unnecessary money on, such as: TV, internet, alcohol, entertainment, etc, etc.)
So presumably that`s how you value the life of your child or parent, less than someones pet. You would really agree with someone else saving their cat above the life of your child.
Grotesque
*that comes up rather often on Digital Spy, considering how many other equally unlikely scenarios there are...
£100 pm, to keep a cat? :eek:
What are you feeding it on, smoked salmon and caviare?
Well choosing your child over a stranger would be the same sort of deal. I imagine most parents would instinctively choose their child, simply because they are more important to them than some random guy. The stranger could turn out to be much more important to many more people, but would that really affect your decision?
Me choosing the pet here would not affect someone else's decision if the stranger they're saving happened to be someone I knew. Your last point about me valuing people I actually care about based on this doesn't really work.