It's an interesting question, but were Dennis to ask me I'd honestly say the stranger, or my wife in the first example. My dogs are excellent swimmers, and if I brought them in first, they'd follow me back out. And I suppose it might depend on the stranger, and just why my dogs are in trouble in the midst of a stranger. An interesting academic question though.
Hillary or Harvey?
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You’re asking us which dog we would save, Hillary or Harvey?
Tough one.
I’d definitely save my dog before Hillary or Harvey. /s
Just kidding, since I don’t have a dog.
But I’d have to think about whether to save either of them.... /s
I’ve read too many stories where people tried to save their dogs from drowning, suffered that fate themselves while the dog self-rescued. A whole family once, parents after son after dog.
I love my dog, she fills a space I didn’t know I had but which is deep in my blood, and I’d save the human stranger, because I can imagine his family’s grief.
Pets do not scheme to murder you, steal from you, trash talk you behind your back, betray you, SWAT you, lie to the cops about you, burn your house down, run you over, sabotage you at work, hire people to destroy your life, spend you into major debt, use your kids against you as pawns, leave you and take half your wealth as parting cash and prizes.
That is why.
If it were a choice between my dog and Hillary Clinton I’d let the dog drown and save my Sheltie.
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Possibly dog over stranger because they feel a deep responsibility for dog.
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Americans’ cultural highpoint is in the past.
Entertainment, education and stupid people have dumbed most people down severely.
Have to save the person first. Each of us was created in God’s image and we have that spark of soul within us.
In the early years of my marriage the wife, pup dog and I rode a huge block of Styrofoam down a river and got dumped out at a rapid.
I saw that the wife was swimming OK so I left her and went after the dog.
A JRT? ...probably not so much.
Off-topic, but maybe not, there was a PEW survey decades ago in the mid-east and the US, the question was asked:
If you were in a small boat with your wife and mother, and the boat capsizes and you could only save one, who would you save?
a) Save the wife
b) Save your mother
Most Muslims would save their mother, not their wife.
Why would Muslims save their mother and not their wife?
The answer given most was: “You can always get another wife but you only have one mother.”
Most US respondents said they would save their wife.