Chula Vista

You gotta be more specific than just animal vs human. Lot's of people I can think of that would lose out against an innocent animal.

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jwb

I said innocent. Let's assume it's a random person on the street vs a random dog you don't know.

Lucem Ferre

What kind of dog are we talking here?

If it's a minpin I might just side with the puppy.

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Chula Vista

We talking they are both hanging onto the edge of a cliff and I can only pull one up?
Safe to assume the dog weighs less, so the RPOTS loses this round.

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

jwb

Why do you keep looking for a loophole? Lol

If you value a dog's life more just say that. Stop trying to slide by on a technicality.

Chula Vista

Face it. To give you a black or white answer I need specifics about my choices.

If a bus is about to hit both a dog and a person simultaneously I think my gut instinct would be to save the person. There's no thought process involved.

You want me to mull it over you gotta give me specifics.

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

jwb

The point of the hypothetical is to remove specifics so we can analyze human life vs a dogs life in a general sense. That's why looking for specifics that change the scenario is just trying to reframe the question to your favor rather than just answering it straight.

Let's say the scenario is specifically that you have to choose whither a random person dies or a random dog dies. You don't get to see or learn anything about the person or the dog. You just have to choose whether they kill a random person or a random dog. So you know as soon as you make the choice, then they are going to go out and select either the random person or dog to die. But it won't be anybody you know or any dog you've met. It will be a stranger you know nothing about. If you refuse to choose, they just kill both.

Chula Vista

This has gone beyond ridiculous.
Wouldn't made an awesome Twilight Zone episode though.

As soon as I started reading the post all I could hear was Jigsaw's voice in my head.




P.S.
Unlike with people, I don't need to 'meet' a dog to dig it. It's a given.

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on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

The Batlord

Chula's driver's license photo.

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Trollheart

If it was you, I think you have my answer.
It kind of was.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLsMgho0GT8

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