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mjdonnelly
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Sorry, it’s just a dog. Eaten regularly in some countries. We just happen to think dogs are cute.
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cove
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I voted the human but after reading your post I would not blame you if you saved your dog instead.
My sister has a cat that she nursed from the time it was born. She literally found it in the middle of the street while she was out bike riding. It had just been born. She thinks the mother must have been in the process of moving her litter and dropped this one. She lives in a very wooded area and chances are the mother was a wild cat living in the woods. Anyway, she took this baby home that barely fit in the palm of her hand. She got special formula to feed it and like you was up every two or three hours to feed it. It bonded to her like she was it’s mother which she certainly became. It grew into a beautiful healthy cat and is my sisters empty-nest-syndrome baby. He actually lays in her arms like a baby and sucks on her finger. She named him Lucky. An appropriate name, IMO.
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Emily_Watson
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Human were eaten regularly in cannibalistic islands up until the 1970’s. It stopped because of outside pressure. They would probably save the dog.
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space_ghost
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i believe that i could save both… i don’t subscribe to the no-win senario! 
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Linda_H
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I’m not to worried about my dogs, their both good swimmers, but if I had to make the choice I would save the stranger first, then try to go back for my dog.
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Sola
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I’m saving my dog!!!
I would never let my dog drown if I could help it. I don’t even like to imagine a scenario such as this.
I would never let my dog drown if I could help it. I don’t even like to imagine a scenario such as this.
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Jay74
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That’s they whole point, is it is a tough scenario.
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AmyS
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I would have to save the stranger. I love both of my dogs very much, but, I can’t imagine not doing something to help a human being. There would be so many hurt if the human died, their family, friends, ect… It would be a herindous loss… What if the person was the breadmaker of the family? What if they where the only person a child had left…? Too many what ifs. Although it would be hard to lose one of my dogs, my life would go on.
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Sola
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You don’t actually know that, it’s just an assumption.
What if the person was a serial child molester who was disowned by his entire family, blasphemed God every day, and constantly looked for children to abuse?
What if he had just murdered his parents and neighbors?
What if he had no family, no friends, no property, no job, but lived off welfare and mugged people on the subway for drug money?
What if the drowning stranger were Ted Bundy or the Green River Killer?
My point is not that some people do not deserve to live, but that you are making a judgement without evidence, which really doesn’t work for this situation.
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Prester_John
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I only had two dogs. One was old, when I was a kid, and thought everyone younger than my Granpa was a puppy. The other grew old,got the rheumatism and went lame and lost his senses of sight and smell – 20 is old for a dog; and he was in such great suffering, so I took it down to the woods where my father and I first taught him to hunt, and put him down there, and laid him in the earth in that place.
I had a childhood friend died of the Cancer, only a year ago; no prayers, or holy relics could change God’s mind of the appointed day; and so death death took my friend, after much pain. It was in the winter, about a week before Christmas, and the ground was so hard and frozen, that we were told his burial could not happen until the spring, since the men that dug graves for the cemetary couldn’t use their Back-hoe. I remember getting right angry about that, and my older brothers too. So we went to the graveyard and made his place in the earth ourselves, by pick and shovel and pure cussedness. And he was laid in the earth on the day before Christmas, and it was a kindness to his family and his young wife and little daughter.
Animals are all God’s creatures; they are all beautiful, and good. Some of them are quite intelligent. Many are very tasty. Some have fur that feel great and keep me warm when I go home to Saskatchewan, Canada and help my uncle out on his farm and his trap lines. But none of them compose sonnets. None of them worry about Vatican II and its repercussions. None of them compose beautiful prayers or songs or poems. None of them, not even my dog, would pray for my soul after I am dead. None of them can.Not one animal is listed among the martyrs and saints.
But humans can do, can be, all of these things. And more.
And Jesus came into this world as human. He did not come as a wolf, or a dog, or a dragon.
He was flesh, not fish.
He was human. For the briefest of days, to our greatest joy. To our greates regret, for 2’000 years and many generations, miss him so…
I have grieved over pets, at their funerals.But I don’t see the loss as somehow the same as losing a human friend. I would always offer up a prayer for the friends I have lost, in the passage of my days, for friends and brothers-in-arms that pased away. But I also offer prayers of thanks to God for every T-bone I taste.
I can regret the loss of the company of a faithful companion hound…
But I miss my friends, and my siblings, and my brothers in arms, especially, and worry I for for them, even now. I spent such days, such awful and beautiful days, with those men, and they are gone now from this unquiet earth, except in my memories, dreams and reflections…
See what I mean?
I had a childhood friend died of the Cancer, only a year ago; no prayers, or holy relics could change God’s mind of the appointed day; and so death death took my friend, after much pain. It was in the winter, about a week before Christmas, and the ground was so hard and frozen, that we were told his burial could not happen until the spring, since the men that dug graves for the cemetary couldn’t use their Back-hoe. I remember getting right angry about that, and my older brothers too. So we went to the graveyard and made his place in the earth ourselves, by pick and shovel and pure cussedness. And he was laid in the earth on the day before Christmas, and it was a kindness to his family and his young wife and little daughter.
Animals are all God’s creatures; they are all beautiful, and good. Some of them are quite intelligent. Many are very tasty. Some have fur that feel great and keep me warm when I go home to Saskatchewan, Canada and help my uncle out on his farm and his trap lines. But none of them compose sonnets. None of them worry about Vatican II and its repercussions. None of them compose beautiful prayers or songs or poems. None of them, not even my dog, would pray for my soul after I am dead. None of them can.Not one animal is listed among the martyrs and saints.
But humans can do, can be, all of these things. And more.
And Jesus came into this world as human. He did not come as a wolf, or a dog, or a dragon.
He was flesh, not fish.
He was human. For the briefest of days, to our greatest joy. To our greates regret, for 2’000 years and many generations, miss him so…
I have grieved over pets, at their funerals.But I don’t see the loss as somehow the same as losing a human friend. I would always offer up a prayer for the friends I have lost, in the passage of my days, for friends and brothers-in-arms that pased away. But I also offer prayers of thanks to God for every T-bone I taste.
I can regret the loss of the company of a faithful companion hound…
But I miss my friends, and my siblings, and my brothers in arms, especially, and worry I for for them, even now. I spent such days, such awful and beautiful days, with those men, and they are gone now from this unquiet earth, except in my memories, dreams and reflections…
See what I mean?
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AmyS
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Sounds like some of the same arguements people make to justify abortion…
I would assume the best… I couldn’t live with myself if I found out different… Remember this is my reasoning… I wasn’t judgeing you.
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Jim_ov_Cov
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I love my Yorkie (Jimmy) but human life comes first. I pray everyday to St. Francis of Assisi that I may love my animals as God Wills it. It’s easy to form an inordinate attachment.
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TarAshly
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i could never stand to see Kirby suffer in anyway nor could i stand to see another human suffer. when Kirby dies i will grieve for him just as i would another friend who has passed. hes my best friend, the most loyal person in my life, and i love him, even my fiance gets irritated with me, doesnt mean he loves me any less but he occasionally gets irritated, kirby never gets irritated with me in his eyes i can do no wrong. i believe its very easy to love an animal as if they were human. i have kind of a silly question though but its one i wonder about. do yall think animals go to Heaven when they die?
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Mac6yver
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I am not Catholic, nor am I religious. That is just so you know where I am coming from. I would save the stranger. I would be very sad about the dog, but the survival of a member of my own species must remain priority #1.
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Jay74
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The point is you have no evidence–you know nothing about the human drowning (they are a stranger) and you love your dog. The correct answer is, obviously, to save the human. Otherwise, you are playing God, and taking it upon yourself to condemn to death a human (created in God’s image) that you know nothing about.
Now, if it is Osama bin Laden drowning, and you know it, that’s one thing. But in this case you haven’t a clue, and not acting may condemn a family to live without a mother or father or son or daughter.
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Joan_M
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I am totally horrified that five people have voted to save their dog and leave a human being to drown. I can’t believe that anyone could be so callous.
Human beings have been made in the image and likeness of God. Animals, certainly, were created by God, but they do not have immortal souls, and have not been called to be in Heaven with God.
I think that anyone who would save the dog and let the person drown should be charged with, at least, criminal negligence, and sent to prison. Yes, seriously. So, I hope those that voted to save the dog have done that just for a joke.
Human beings have been made in the image and likeness of God. Animals, certainly, were created by God, but they do not have immortal souls, and have not been called to be in Heaven with God.
I think that anyone who would save the dog and let the person drown should be charged with, at least, criminal negligence, and sent to prison. Yes, seriously. So, I hope those that voted to save the dog have done that just for a joke.
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buffalo
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Well now you got me thinking. I would ask him if he was voting for Kerry.
I wonder how I can justify that and still be a good Catholic. I might try asking some Catholic Kerry voters. They seem to have done it.
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Teresa9
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Dear friends
Questions like this irritate me, it is the same sort of question posed when a person is on the attack against someone who is animal rights or vegetarian, just to DUPE them, it is a small minded question. Life in all forms is precious, but human life is sacred, therefore the questions answers itself. In all my life and most of the people I have ever met, have I yet to find a person and a dog drowning at the same time…stupid question.
God Bless you and much love and peace to you
Teresa
Questions like this irritate me, it is the same sort of question posed when a person is on the attack against someone who is animal rights or vegetarian, just to DUPE them, it is a small minded question. Life in all forms is precious, but human life is sacred, therefore the questions answers itself. In all my life and most of the people I have ever met, have I yet to find a person and a dog drowning at the same time…stupid question.
God Bless you and much love and peace to you
Teresa
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Sola
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Good point, Teresa. I don’t think I’ll even respond to the other posts because, really, it’s arguing about a hypothetical, which is not very productive. It’s like setting up a strawman argument and then tearing it down. Why waste the energy?
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Jay74
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I wish it was a stupid, small minded question. But five people have demonstrated otherwise.
And it was not designed to dupe anybody, especially considering how obvious the answer is.
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