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funking shitting funking sheet funk. Umm. I'd go for the dog. If it were a person I loved and a person I don't know and I can only save 1 I'll be going for the former so really I'm sorry random person but RIP you're gone I can't see myself being swayed by the fact that they're a human on its own. Maybe I'd react differently in the situation if it actually occurred, maybe I'll think differently in half an hour, but my gut reaction is that.

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f***ing shitting f***ing s*** f***. Umm. I'd go for the dog. If it were a person I loved and a person I don't know and I can only save 1 I'll be going for the former so really I'm sorry random person but RIP you're gone I can't see myself being swayed by the fact that they're a human on its own. Maybe I'd react differently in the situation if it actually occurred, maybe I'll think differently in half an hour, but my gut reaction is that.

 

The thing is though, is an animal really above another human being's life? Regardless of how much you love your pet, there has to be a realization that he isn't like you; he reacts on instinct, not reason.

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The thing is though, is an animal really above another human being's life? Regardless of how much you love your pet, there has to be a realization that he isn't like you; he reacts on instinct, not reason.

 

Yeah m8 I'm pretty sure that in this situation as described I'd be acting on instinct too. That is to say, in the moment that something like this is happening, there's no real time to take a step back and look at it reasonably. I don't care about the randomer next to my dog so it's not going to be a contest.

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Dog. Most people will say dog. And largely, it's an irrelevant hypothetical question because the answer is also irrelevant. We already know we are more willing to save things we know than things we dont, if there is an equal portion of them.

 

Similarly, many people will choose to save multiple strangers over a single person they know and care about. But posing that question now, too, is irrelevant, because we already know this, it provides no new information to the human condition because it's already been worked on.

 

On an individual level it can sometimes be helpful to know which choice one would make, in an interview or psychological screening scenario, but out of the pursuit of knowledge about humanity, there's no point in asking because we already have this knowledge.

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