Re: PETA documentary last night
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But my question wasn't about "caring"; it was about being specifically in the position to save an unknown person right in front of you OR your pet when you can't do both and nobody else is around to do it.
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I thought I answered clearly. I believe that I would make a conscious choice to save my dog. I do not believe that there is a universal morality which makes the life of a human being I don't know more valuable than the life of my dog.
However, if I was forced to make the choice between saving a strange human or a strange dog, I would save the human. Not because I value the life of the human more, but because I think a human values it's own life more than a dog values his own life. So in this case, empathy dictates my decision.
I wasn't around for the Abdul wars, but I have been told it was his abusive nature, not his vocabulary, which got him banned.
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