A Hypothetical Drowning

[DigDug]

In your local lake you see, as you run by, that both your dog whom you love dearly and a stranger are drowning. The circumstances are such that you can only save one. Which would you save?

 

[minendo]

This question and similar ones involving pets have been beaten to death.

However, my first instinct would be to save my dog as she is a family member. I, of course, am going to try my best to save both lives.

 

[FoBoT]

i can't believe anybody would save an animal instead of a human, i don't get it

 

[Jzero]

Are you bored?
I once heard that a variant of this is would you save your fiancee or your mother and that somehow if you would say your mother, it meant that you shouldn't marry your fiancee b/c you don't TRULY love her.

So I guess if you choose the stranger, you don't truly love your dog hahaha

 

[ThaGrandCow]

I'd probably save my dog first and try to grab the stranger at the same time.

 

[dullard]

You seem to be on a hunt to find out how/why we treat animals differently than humans. In this case I think all species will save their own before another. I bet a pack of elephants would be more conserned about a drowning elephant than a drowning moose. A group of monkeys would be more conserned over a drowning monkey than a drowning cat. So yes we fall into the same pattern - most humans would me more concerned about saving the human than the dog. I would do the same too. Yes we treat animals and humans differently - that is because we are human.

 

[Cenalian]

Dogs can swim.

Let them save each other.

 

[Narse]

Human life has more meaning than any animal

 

[DigDug]

You seem to be on a hunt to find out how/why we treat animals differently than humans

Not really. just a bit bored. But I did elicit the comments that I wanted to see. Some viewing the dog as a family member, and others doing some sort of evolutionary ladder analysis. I wonder how many of the latter are dog owners, and how many of the former aren't?

 

[MikeO]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
i can't believe anybody would save an animal instead of a human, i don't get it

 

[iamme]

the human

 

[pulse8]

Originally posted by: Narse77
Human life has more meaning than any animal

If the guy's a crack addict that tried to eat my dog, I'm saving my dog.

 

[dullard]

Some viewing the dog as a family member, and others doing some sort of evolutionary ladder analysis.

Ah but from my two posts in the two threads you should see that I agree with both. I view my cats as family members and I treat them like my family members. But they are still just animals and if I had to choose between a human's life or an animal's life - I'd choose the human. I just treat them as if they were family, but my pets aren't EXACTLY family. Thus in normal situations, I'd treat them the same as a family member. But in extreme situations like the one you posted, they will have to make the sacrifice.

 

[Spooner]

I'd call out for a pizza.

 

[notfred]

I don't have a dog and I don't really care about most people I don't know... especially when they're be annoying and screaming stuff like "Help! I'm drowning!" so I'd probably jsut stay on the beach warm and dry.

 

[isasir]

Originally posted by: BlipBlop
In your local lake you see, as you run by, that both your dog whom you love dearly and a stranger are drowning. The circumstances are such that you can only save one. Which would you save?

Neither. I can't swim.

 

[stormbv]

Maggie is a black lab, and labs can swim their asses off, so I doubt that she would ever be in that position.

I guess I'd save the human...I'd feel guiltier if I saved a dog and not a person.

 

[BooGiMaN]

hmmm how did they get in that predicament in the first place?

if they are that stupid maybe you should let them drown!

and is the water clean?

dont want to get in and find out its poopy water...

and what if i just came back from the computer store dont want to get the ram or hard drive i just bought wet....

but then again maybe i should post on ATOT first and do a poll to help me decide...

but then again ATOT is full of freaks that would skew the results.....

 

[CPA]

Originally posted by: Narse77
Human life has more meaning than any animal