Skald, if you look at it pragmatically, the kitten’s easier to feed. Bowl + milk + kitten = happy, fed kitten.
Depending on the age of the infant, there may be more - and potentially more involved - steps to get the baby fed.
Species go extinct all the time, always have and always will. The idea that you would leave two innocent people to die for some nebulous wishy-washy ideal about saving an animal species is just abhorrent.
Thats some sick shit right there.
Fuck that. The human infant is more important than the kitten because the kitten is a freaking cat. Any responsible adult’s first allegiance should be to the helpless creature of his or her own species.
Put me in the “save a human, unless it’s someone like Hitler, or Charles Manson” catagory. (Hell, I’d save a dead skunk before I’d save either one of those bastards.)
By this standard, would this mean saving a highly intelligent animal over a severely mentally handicapped human?
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This does back to the thread about whether animals understand their own mortality. Does he really understand what death is and that he’d be “sacrificing his life”?
In general, no. In some extreme examples (a few of which have been given in this thread), yes. So I can’t say in all cases, but for the vast, vast majority of cases, I would side with the human life.
Unless the animal holds the genetic sequence for the cure to the zombie virus or something like that, I don’t see how you wouldn’t sacrifice even an animal as extraordinary as Coco to save a human life.
If the human is a poacher after some endangered species, and a group of them manage to kill the poacher, more power to them.
Not to mention that if this really is the last breeding pair of said endangered species, the species is most likely doomed, anyway. Two individuals of a species aren’t enough to repopulate without severe inbreeding issues.
Since about 80% of things on the Internet attributed to George Carlin were never said or written by George Carlin, I’d suggest some skepticism is merited here.
I have not been able to conclusively demonstrate whether he wrote this or not, but I’ll work on it.
Yep. I was sceptical too, but it looks like it came from his book “Brain Droppings” I think.