To spare, or to boil?
Your reasoning is compelling, I admit.
TvTropes lists Donald Duck as “born unlucky”
I can’t vote in the poll. They both can boil to a nice crispy perfection. As long as Karl, King of Ducks lives, all is right in the Universe.
I was thinking about Mickey Mouse the other day, and how I have pretty much zero sense of his personality, even though I’ve been exposed to him from early childhood on. But the Warner Brothers cartoon characters - Bugs, Daffy, Elmer Fudd, Yosemite Sam, whoever - you know who they are.
Donald Duck’s not quite as undefined as Mickey, but close enough. Why bother to save him?
Daffy is funny and clever (although not as clever as Bugs) and just a lot more fun than Donald.