i have to buck the trend and go stranger

Stranger you psychopaths.

So, pet people, does your answer change if the stranger is a frightened 3-year-old child?

I don't have some sort of hidden agenda here, just genuinely curious.

anyone who says pet needs to sort their ****ing priorities out

ya, this seems like a simple math problem to me


I have 1 pet.


I have 7 billion strangers.

i mean if its a loved pet, youve formed a bond with him/her and have taken care of him/her and stuff like that. who is the stranger to me?

id say the pet. if you pick stranger, then you probably havent met "the one" yet - and im talking about in terms of pets.

Lemme guess. You don't have kids.

For those of us that do, answering this hypothetical is even easier than the one posed by the OP.

it doesn't matter... i couldn't live with myself if i let a human die over a pet and i find it disgusting that anyone here would contemplate the same. snap choose human over animal any day wtf are you people thinking lol

what if the person was wearing a von dutch hat and an ed hardy shirt, do you humanists still save them over your pet?

or what about some skinny jeans and hipster glasses?

yes.. lol at having to be a humanist to save a persons life over a pet. it's called common human decency.

lol, where do you live that you actually think human decency is common?

anyway the math is pretty simple ~400 million dogs in the world compared to 7+ billion people, it's really not that close especially when you consider how much more of a negative environmental impact a human is going to have.

pretty sure i'm being trolled now

To all the people that say save the stranger:

If I gave you $1 billion dollars on the contingency that one stranger would die, would you say "Nah" or take the monies?

no seriously, what do you think intrinsically makes a human life more important than the life of a dog? did you read it in the bible or something?

there is a serious human overpopulation problem, that's just reality, people ignore it because they are humans themselves, but it doesn't change the fact that there are way too many people on earth.

Hmm...probably not. Just gonna' grow up to be another a-hole like the rest of us.

As said before, this is bull****. If you own a pet you feed him. People you don't know (strangers) are starving to death and you could use exactly the same money to save one or more of their lives. I am certain none of the "humanists" who own a pet will now decide to let it starve to death and send the same money to a charity that fights hunger.

In fact the majority of people here according to the poll. Also the majority in most other polls I've seen on the subject. Let's say that's representative. So that random stranger you'd save would probably let you die and save his pet. You're going to let your beloved pet die in order to save this disgusting person. And, frankly, that's probably going to be one of that stranger's most endearing qualities.

Sorry, but the stranger should have done a better job of taking care of himself. The dog is my responsibility.