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What if you had to choose between hitting a child riding a dog, a monkey riding a dog, or a dolphin?
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Ha! It’s a trick question! If I see a dolphin while driving, it’s clearly an hallucination so I should steer towards it, because it isn’t really there.
But what if the dog were to grow up and crash his car, trapping his puppies in the car with no hope of avoiding a fiery death?
Whenever we have one of these “people who love animals more than people” threads. someone cites an outrageous quote made by some pychotic, tree hugging animal lover and I think to myself “Wook, you must not get out enough”. I’m not saying it didn’t happen like you say, Dob; only that it’s something that I have never encountered first hand. I’m an animal lover and tend to be around people of like mind, and I’ve heard the occasional snarky comment about preferring the company of animals to that of most humans. Hell I’ve said it myself more than once. I’m also not a big lover of children. But, I’m pretty sure if it came down to it, there’d be no question but that I would save a child first. I’ve also never heard anyone honestly , seriously equate their pet with a human being. But my question is, “So what”? That’s a rhetorical question, of course, as god knows we’ve had this discussion many many times before. Odd, and kind of ridiculous, yes,but how can someone you don’t care about, commenting on some hypothetical situation piss you off that much? I’m thinking that Peta-girl and you don’t get along for other reasons (hairy arms, patchouli stink) and her selfrighteous, animal loving attitude just pushed you over the edge. Or maybe she was just trying to push your buttons. If I were faced with someone who disrespected my beliefs and might be apt to mock my hygene and hirsutedness, I’d be tempted to say something outrageous just to get their goat.
[QUOTE=Dob]
Just cause I would kill a pet to save a human doesnt make me Hitler!
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Jawhol, mein Disco Fueher!
[QUOTE=Little Nemo]
I suspect that a lot of these PETA people are using their supposed love of animals as as an excuse to hate their fellow humans.
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I need no such excuse.
Is the dolphin riding the dog?
And what about furries? Do they come before or after dogs on the Vehicular Homicide Continuum?
What about if the choice was between a dog riding a child and a shark riding an elephant, just eating and trampling everything?
[QUOTE=Dob]
“Are you out of your mind? If saving a child required me to stomp a dogs head to a bloody pulp, I would do it. I would do it twice if needed.”
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But you wouldn’t do that to a cat, right? If so, then I’m gonna have to side with Peta-Bitch, my friend.
[QUOTE=vibrotronica]
And what about furries? Do they come before or after dogs on the Vehicular Homicide Continuum?
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Furries come before anything else on the list, even Republicans.
[QUOTE=silenus]
Furries come before anything else on the list, even Republicans.
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What about scalies then ?
and seriously, there’s stuff out there both stranger and nastier than furries
You people suck! i was trying to be all angry and pissy, and instead now im laughing and holding my piss. Good job you bastards!
In other news, I am not now, nor have I ever been Hitler.
[QUOTE=Dob]
he just wants food and companionship. Dont give him those things, and he would ignore your sorry ass and look for it elsewhere.
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If my boyfriend stopped providing me with food and companionship I would look for it elsewhere too. Does this make me a dog? If so, I will have to be a lot more careful when crossing the street.
Well I can see the punsters have latched onto this thread but I’d like to provide at least some semblance of a serious answer.
I don’t have a dog in this fight (forgive me) and I won’t comment on your or your PETA-friend’s stance but you have to realize bringing up such a hot-button topic is going to wind up a lose-lose situation.
Neither of you stands a chance at convincing the other and it won’t be long before emotions erupt and the fur starts to fly (I’m trying but can’t help myself.)
This is not to suggest that your future discussion points should be vanilla, let’s-all-just-get-along, chat sessions but some times you’re better off just letting sleeping dogs….NO, I MUST STOP. My point is whoever brought up the ridiculous “What would you do scenario….” had to know that this would be some serious shit stirring.
Done.
[QUOTE=you with the face]
But you wouldn’t do that to a cat, right? If so, then I’m gonna have to side with Peta-Bitch, my friend.
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No, to kill a cat properly requires special tools.
[QUOTE=tdn]
One can imagine the doggy officers, barking out orders.
The horror, thinking about kitty concentration camps.
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Poor RedFury, how crushed he’ll be when his beloved Doberman starts goose-stepping around the house.
Although you gotta admit, she’d look bitchin’ in a spiked collar.
Wow I’m laughing so hard that I just peed a little bit. You dont owe me a new monitor though.
Ooh ooh, I have a story that indirectly relates to this. I was out bar-hopping yesterday, and I got into a conversation with this girl. We got talking about our dads, and I explained how my dad is a cool guy but sometimes he turns into The Hulk and unleashes a rage of destruction on non-human objects.
One time our dog crossed his path when he was on a rage bender, and he picked up the dog and lobbed it from the porch down five feet, down the porch and onto the ground. The girl was instantly mortifiied. I explained how the dog was scared but uninjured. She still said my dad was evil, like more evil than Hitler.
I told her “at least it wasn’t a baby” and she said “I think they are both equally bad”
Excuse me? Say again? You equate throwing a dog with throwing a baby? O rly? Listen up Princess McDuck, I think it’s safe to say that there exists a worldwide belief system that ranks human children over dogs. I think even most PETA lunatics rank babies ahead of dogs. PETA people might not eat dogs, but I think they understand that if somehow the only edible food for babies was dog, they would let it slide rather than dooming humanity.
I was very tempted to invent a kid brother and tell her that I threw it one time and see her reaction. I think all the shit in her body would have oozed out her pores and then, due to her body heat of womenly idiotic indignation, would have fried over ala human tempura.
But anyway, what’s so bad about being Doggy Hitler? Sounds pawfully exciting.
[QUOTE=minlokwat]
My point is whoever brought up the ridiculous “What would you do scenario….” had to know that this would be some serious shit stirring.
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For sure, it’s just throwing a cat among the pigeons.
What if the dog were strapped into a burning car and you couldn’t get the seatbelt off to free him? And what if you had Hitler’s gun in the glove compartment? Would you let the pooch suffer in the fire, shoot it, or pop off to see if maybe Eva Braun wanted to go to a disco?
Choose. Choose now!
[QUOTE=SkipMagic]
What if the dog were strapped into a burning car and you couldn’t get the seatbelt off to free him? And what if you had Hitler’s gun in the glove compartment? Would you let the pooch suffer in the fire, shoot it, or pop off to see if maybe Eva Braun wanted to go to a disco?
Choose. Choose now!
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And what if chemical A was acid glue and chemical B was Hitler? What then?
[QUOTE=Dob]
<big ol’ snippage>Let me say this plainly… animals are not people. <end snippage>
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But people are animals…
[QUOTE=Dob]
So last night Peta-bitch and friends went out to dinner, and God only knows how this came up, but someone asked her if she was driving a car and a dog and a child ran out onto the road, which would she swerve to avoid?
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You know why this is all kind of silly? Because this stuff almost never happens in the real world. If it did, you would hear all about it. It is rare to the point of non-existence for a person to be faced with a choice that has the death of either a pet or a child as the necessary outcome.