Justice

[Dryglove]

This thread has actually shown that our two biggest trolls have a serious side here ....imagine that.Whts next.....let me guess....lawman gives in and goes DIR......... jepuskar...well who knows...i still think he is trolling

 

[cyklon_300]

intrinsically have greater worth than other animals is increasingly hard to accept.

Biologically, humans are primates, and primates ARE animals. Making a rigid distinction between people and other animals relies on some fairly artificial criteria.

At one time, anthropologists considered the dividing line was tool use, then tool making, then tool modification, then tool keeping...but examples of these behaviors in other animals have all been documented.

I polled several people I know on the scenario of being able to only save their dog OR a stranger's child...there was unanimous agreement that the pooch would be the one to be rescued.

 

[TCDiver1]

cyklon_300 once bubbled...

I polled several people I know on the scenario of being able to only save their dog OR a stranger's child...there was unanimous agreement that the pooch would be the one to be rescued.

i guess most people i know are just different. To most i know and myself, this isn't even a question or close to an ethical dilemma. Child first, dog second, no question or thought needed.

I do wonder about people who would put their dog first though. Honestly, if the choice was them or their dog, do you think they would tell me to save the dog first? I already know the fully truthful answer to that one and it ain't the dog.

Saving their dog over a human stranger has got to be one of the most self-centered, inhumane things i've heard in a long time.

JMO

 

[O-ring]

gedunk once bubbled...
i guess most people i know are just different. To most i know and myself, this isn't even a question or close to an ethical dilemma. Child first, dog second, no question or thought needed.

I do wonder about people who would put their dog first though. Honestly, if the choice was them or their dog, do you think they would tell me to save the dog first? I already know the fully truthful answer to that one and it ain't the dog.

Saving their dog over a human stranger has got to be one of the most self-centered, inhumane things i've heard in a long time.

JMO

Of course you grab the child..but, if I know the POS beating the dog is, in fact, a POS, and a truck is screaming towards them...I am grabbing the pooch.

 

[WreckWriter]

gedunk once bubbled...
Saving their dog over a human stranger has got to be one of the most self-centered, inhumane things i've heard in a long time.

JMO

I have to agree with this, in all cases but especially when you're talking about a child. I personally find it hard to believe that any decent human being really feels this way. In most cases I bet if push came to shove they'd save the child.

WW

 

[metridium]

gedunk wrote...
Saving their dog over a human stranger has got to be one of the most self-centered, inhumane things i've heard in a long time.

For some it's a question of saving a virtual family member who gives unconditional love and unfailing companionship vs. a stranger to whom the rescuer has no emotional bond, whose loss would not be agonized over for months, and who could have even been an enemy.

It's a war between the heart and the mind, all in the blink of an eye. Sometimes reason wins out; sometimes it's emotion.

 

[TCDiver1]

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Of course you grab the child..but, if I know the POS beating the dog is, in fact, a POS, and a truck is screaming towards them...I am grabbing the pooch.

If the POS factor is known, it complicates the issue, but i would probably still save the mope and kick myself in the arse about the decision later. Just a wiring thing i guess.

Hard to say really since things like this happen so fast you have no time to debate about what to do.

I do know this, my dog would be trying to pull my fat arse out of the way if it could so it would really pain me to have to make that decision. She is one, cool, yellow lab!

 

[O-ring]

gedunk once bubbled...
If the POS factor is known, it complicates the issue, but i would probably still save the mope and kick myself in the arse about the decision later. Just a wiring thing i guess.

Hard to say really since things like this happen so fast you have no time to debate about what to do.

I do know this, my dog would be trying to pull my fat arse out of the way if it could so it would really pain me to have to make that decision. She is one, cool, yellow lab!

You're right..I mean, these things happen so fast and so often...I always catch myself trying to decide between saving a dog and a person...happens twice a week at least..

 

[TCDiver1]

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You're right..I mean, these things happen so fast and so often...I always catch myself trying to decide between saving a dog and a person...happens twice a week at least..

:bonk: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

 

[O-ring]

What about saving a troll or your Beef Grilled Stuffed Burrito (TM) from Taco Bell?

Now that's a real dilemma...