Would you rather see a human die or a dog?

[TheGame]

Originally Posted by Typhoid

I voted for killing a dog being worse.
But I was joking.

Ditto. lol

Though, funny enough.. I got that question on a psycological evaluation.

One of the questions asked "If you are driving at 2AM in the morning, and you see a dog lying in the middle of the street appearing to be to be either asleep or injured, you would stop and help."

Strongly agree-Agree-Neutral-Disagree-Strongly Disagree

Then about 30 or so questions later, they ask the same question just with human instead of a dog "If you are driving at 2AM in the morning, and you see a man lying in the middle of the street appearing to be to be either asleep or injured, you would stop and help."

I put strongly agree on both, because if I'm asked about it by the psycologist, the question didn't directly say "how" you would go about helping. If it was a dog I'd honk my horn at it, and if it didn't move I'd try to call someone to help. Same with the man... I'd honk, if he didn't get up I'd call 911. But it took some thinking on my part to come to that conclusion.

My ex GF, on the other hand, when I brought up that question to her... she would have marked strongly agree for the dog and strongly disagree for the human. (First thing that came to mind for her is the guy jumping up and stabbing her when she gets out of the car) Then when I explained my thoughts on it, she changed her mind to strongly agree on both lol.

But those were just 2 in 900 questions... I bet a lot of people get caught by that when rushing through.

[Teuthida]

Some humans deserve to die. No dog does. In movies you always feel worse when an animal dies than a human. I don't have the real world experience of seeing a random human/dog killed in front of me but I assume I'd be more affected by the human, being the same form as myself.

[TheGame]

Originally Posted by Teuthida

Some humans deserve to die. No dog does. In movies you always feel worse when an animal dies than a human. I don't have the real world experience of seeing a random human/dog killed in front of me but I assume I'd be more affected by the human, being the same form as myself.

I disagree with the notion that no dog deserves to die. Though the ones that need to be put down are likely a product of their environment, the same can be said for humans who act out. But if the end result is a Dog blind in one eye attacking every human it sees below 4 feet tall, attacking every dog you put in front of it, and eating it's own puppies... then it deserves to die as much as any human who would do the same.

I don't get sad when animals die in movies too. I remember some of my friends wouldn't even watch the butterfly effect movie because of the part where the kid sets the dog on fire... that part didn't phase me at all. It was messed up, but it would phase me more if he put his little sister in that bag and set her on fire. Then that would be hard for me to watch...

[Teuthida]

Yeah, I said that about dogs because I figured those that need to be put down were only like that because of humans. Though humans are products of their environment as well I would like to think they have the power to change and contemplate their actions more than a dog would.

I think the reason I feel more for animals in film is because you know the humans are acting whereas with animals it feels more real.