I’ve been discussing with my sister (a big fan of her cats) about what lives we would save in an emergency. I think a human live is worth more than an animal’s no question asked but she thinks otherwhise. So to end this discussion I’m writing here.
- Who would you save between your cat and your worst enemy?
- What if it was between your cat and a stranger?
- Why?
- morgunkorn ( @morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de ) 51•6 months ago
I would save my cat every time. I don’t value human life above her life. She’s been there for me for the past 15 years and helped me through the darkest times.
- some_guy ( @some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ) 8•6 months ago
Yeah, my kitties got me through the pan. I lived alone and wasn’t in a relationship and had no car at the time. The isolation was extreme.
- Dr. Wesker ( @wesker@lemmy.sdf.org ) English35•6 months ago
- Cat
- Cat
- Cat
EDIT: If you need a serious #3 answer, one aspect is that my cat is dependent on me. That’s the relationship I accepted when I chose to take care of a domestic animal. My enemies, or strangers, are not my dependents. They are not vulnerable in that sense.
- livus ( @livus@kbin.social ) 22•6 months ago
Kind of curious who your enemies are, OP.
The ones I haven’t met personally are causing the deaths of millions of people.
The ones I have met personally are rapists and child abusers.
Would you save those kinds of people instead of saving a cat to whom you have a duty of care?
- Glide ( @Glide@lemmy.ca ) 22•6 months ago
I dislike the belief that human life is worth more than any other animal.
Even if we’re going to argue that, because of intellect or the ability to grasp out own existence or whatever arbitrary philosophical reason we’fe going to come up it, a human life is in general more valuable than that of a cats life, my “worst enemy” would have to be someone so morally corrupt that removing them from the world would make it a better place. This makes is a very pointless question.
A stranger is more of a real discussion. The stranger is enough of an unknown factor that I think I could assume that allowing them to die is likely to have a worse impact on the world, so it makes sense to save them. I certainly wouldn’t be able to say so with enough certainty to fault anyone for disagreeing with me, though.
- MadMaurice ( @madmaurice@discuss.tchncs.de ) 22•6 months ago
- Cat
- Cat
- Cat
- Christian ( @christian@lemmy.ml ) English17•6 months ago
My favorite thing about this post is that question 2 is asked based on the assumption that you’ve answered question 1 correctly by picking “cat”.
- Digital Mark ( @mdhughes@lemmy.ml ) English9•6 months ago
There’s about 8 billion Humans, and about half of them suck more than any friendly domestic animal. The worst? I’d create an emergency.
- Vilian ( @Vilian@lemmy.ca ) 9•6 months ago
my worse enemy is the father of my friend who abused her when she was a kid, and watched CP, i don’t know him, i don’t want to know him, and if i had the chance to let him die in front of me, i wouldn’t hesitate to let it happen, and make earth a better place
- MxM111 ( @MxM111@kbin.social ) 8•6 months ago
Yes, saving a cat is a nice bonus.
- Vilian ( @Vilian@lemmy.ca ) 2•6 months ago
true
- zib ( @zib@kbin.melroy.org ) 9•6 months ago
My cats are my family, so they have priority over most humans. This would only be a tough situation if it were between my cats and my best friend because I consider her to be family too. But, in that case, I would say screw the “you can only save one” mentality, I’d become like a mom who can lift a car off her baby, and somehow save them all.
- vrighter ( @vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de ) 8•6 months ago
could have been between the cat and myself. The cat still gets preference.
- Melkath ( @Melkath@kbin.social ) 8•6 months ago
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my dog.
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my dog.
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people suck. They don’t deserve dogs. Consider me John Wick. I would choose to wipe out 10,000 strangers to protect my dog.
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- jet ( @jet@hackertalks.com ) English7•6 months ago
If you don’t want your worst enemies dead they aren’t much of a enemy.
- kandoh ( @kandoh@reddthat.com ) 7•6 months ago
I have no enemies
- LoveSausage ( @LoveSausage@lemmy.ml ) 7•6 months ago
- Cat
- Stranger
- I would not piss on my worst enemy if they where on fire. Stranger well , human Vs animal life.
- slippery_salmons ( @slippery_salmons@lemmy.today ) English7•6 months ago
My wife > dogs > myself.
List stops there.