Let's say...
You're standing on a dock that sits over a lake.
You see your pet and a stranger drowning, your pet on the left and the stranger on the right. They are both the same distance away from you.
You only have time to save one, so you must choose. [b]There's absolutely no way to save both of them.[/b]
So who would you save?
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Stranger. People and animals are not on the same level. Saving the pet just because I have more of an attachment to it would be selfish. "Oh the pet matters more to me!" And you could have just left a family without a parent. You could have just orphaned children. You could have just let the person who would cure cancer die, so that you would not have to mourn over the loss of your pet.