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| Oh the Humanities! Philosophy, Cultural practices, Social norms, Historical Debate, War, and Sociology. |
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2008-06-26, 15:47
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A random stanger or your pet dog.
Which would you pick to stay alive.
No one would ever know what you did.
I'd pick my dog.
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# 2
2008-06-26, 16:25
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Everywhere and Nowhere
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Re: A random stanger or your pet dog.
my dog for sure.
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# 3
2008-06-26, 18:16
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http://tinyurl.com/28ozhm
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Re: A random stanger or your pet dog.
Well, since no one would know, I would pick my dog.
Being an innately selfish human, why would I choose to protect someone I have never met, when I could protect something that I do know and love.
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# 4
2008-06-26, 18:25
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Re: A random stanger or your pet dog.
Lets one up it.
Your whole family or 10 000 people in China?
Me? Fuck the 10 000 I don't know them. This is the way most people would react. There was a book or something written about this I read once...forget what the crux of it was though.
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# 5
2008-06-26, 18:37
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http://tinyurl.com/28ozhm
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Re: A random stanger or your pet dog.
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Originally Posted by launchpad
Lets one up it.
Your whole family or 10 000 people in China?
Me? Fuck the 10 000 I don't know them. This is the way most people would react. There was a book or something written about this I read once...forget what the crux of it was though.
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Plus China needs some population control. They are going to fuck the human race if they don't slow down.
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# 6
2008-06-26, 20:20
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Lanus Buenos Aires Argentina
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Re: A random stanger or your pet dog.
NO ONE would choose the stranger
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# 7
2008-06-26, 20:41
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Re: A random stanger or your pet dog.
I would of thought this but i was talking to 5 other people and 3 of them picked the stranger. 4 of us had pets.
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# 8
2008-06-27, 01:08
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Re: A random stanger or your pet dog.
I would pick the stranger, but I can't stand my dog, we just can't find a place to give her away to.
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# 9
2008-06-27, 02:20
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Re: A random stanger or your pet dog.
Depends.
If the stranger is a hot girl, yes. If not, depends if they look like a douche bag or not.
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# 10
2008-06-27, 07:04
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Re: A random stanger or your pet dog.
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Originally Posted by 23
Well, since no one would know, I would pick my dog.
Being an innately selfish human, why would I choose to protect someone I have never met, when I could protect something that I do know and love.
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"I have found little that is "good" about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all." Sigmund Freud
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#11
2008-06-27, 07:37 |
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Re: A random stanger or your pet dog.
I love my dog but I think it would depend on the circumstances. Would I know anything about the stranger? Would the stranger have a family?
These things could sway my opinion easily. It would be easier for me to get over my dog than say a husband over his wife.
Unless his wife is a cheating whore.
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#12
2008-06-27, 19:14 |
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Re: A random stanger or your pet dog.
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Originally Posted by Einstein
I love my dog but I think it would depend on the circumstances. Would I know anything about the stranger? Would the stranger have a family?
These things could sway my opinion easily. It would be easier for me to get over my dog than say a husband over his wife.
Unless his wife is a cheating whore.
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You would never know about them, so who cares?
I think in a group, most people would pick the stranger to live, just because it sounds fucked up. |
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#13
2008-06-27, 20:11 |
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Re: A random stanger or your pet dog.
The Stranger. I don't have a pet dog
EDIT 1:
HAHA Ethicalfags/Moralfags/Philosopherfags
Where is your intelligence nao :O
EDIT 2:
I can feel sad for random people, wondering about them dying; they have families and friends and can't really say that I feel 'nothing' for random people.
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#14
2008-06-28, 01:11 |
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Re: A random stanger or your pet dog.
You or 10 million strangers?
I pick me
You or 1 billion strangers?
I pick me
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#15
2008-06-28, 06:17 |
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Niggerland: Land of the Negroe
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Re: A random stanger or your pet dog.
Fuck dude I'd kill the stranger over my pet dog which I don't even have. I'd kill the stranger over my favorite pair of jeans.
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#16
2008-06-28, 07:45 |
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Re: A random stanger or your pet dog.
You would never know about them, so who cares?
I think in a group, most people would pick the stranger to live, just because it sounds fucked up.
When asked the same question about my roommate and my chickens, I picked my chickens. He was in the same room at the time. In retrospect maybe not the best time to be honest.
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#17
2008-06-28, 09:24 |
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Re: A random stanger or your pet dog.
I'd pick the random stranger, although I don't have a dog. :p
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#18
2008-06-28, 09:57 |
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Re: A random stanger or your pet dog.
it matters
if the stranger is a hott bitch that i knew i was gonna get with, then maybe her
it matters how much of a bond you have with your dog...
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2008-06-28, 10:27 |
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Re: A random stanger or your pet dog.
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Originally Posted by Punk_Rocker_22
You or 10 million strangers?
I pick me
You or 1 billion strangers?
I pick me
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Hell, even if it was 1 billon strangers or not 1 billion strangers, I'd still let them die.
"Planet's full, fuck off." |
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2008-06-29, 20:29 |
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Re: A random stanger or your pet dog.
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#21
2008-06-29, 21:38 |
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Re: A random stanger or your pet dog.
Stranger but you whouldn't know if they are a asshole or not until you choose them.
A thousand dogs aren't worth one human beings life and I think a chinese person whould pick the dog just to eat it lol racism!
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#22
2008-06-30, 22:12 |
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Re: A random stanger or your pet dog.
Are you guys kidding me?
I would chose the random stranger. Dogs are useless beings made to accompany people. They have no place in the world except in your home. Without you, they are nothing.
They don't think like humans, nor can they perform any of the basic human activities that can get us ANYWHERE. For fucks sake, any human can plant a garden.
Sure you could POSSIBLY get the retard human that can't do shit, but how much more pleasure would you get out of killing that retard with your own bear hands, instead of watching your dog die from old age anyway?
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#23
2008-07-01, 01:35 |
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Re: A random stanger or your pet dog.
I would chose my dog because stangers really hurt and are a bitch to remove. Besides, you didnt even say what kind of stanger. Is it a bee stanger or what?
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#24
2008-07-01, 02:12 |
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Niggerland: Land of the Negroe
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Re: A random stanger or your pet dog.
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Originally Posted by No sketch
Are you guys kidding me?
I would chose the random stranger. Dogs are useless beings made to accompany people. They have no place in the world except in your home. Without you, they are nothing.
They don't think like humans, nor can they perform any of the basic human activities that can get us ANYWHERE. For fucks sake, any human can plant a garden.
Sure you could POSSIBLY get the retard human that can't do shit, but how much more pleasure would you get out of killing that retard with your own bear hands, instead of watching your dog die from old age anyway?
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What about the human who doesn't plant a garden, and would rather drive an SUV and consume resources without giving anything back to civilization? |
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#25
2008-07-01, 02:57 |
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Re: A random stanger or your pet dog.
What about the human who doesn't plant a garden, and would rather drive an SUV and consume resources without giving anything back to civilization?
Nevermind. I'm sorry, Totse, but I changed my mind.
I would chose my dog.
Thanks to Kleenex I was able to dig deeper past my original thought.
It is foolish to gamble on a human that could turn out to be a selfish human who doesn't give anything back to the world. Humans can be homes to the greatest of consciousness, but the majority is a waste of time and space.
My dog is part of my life, therefore, an extension of myself.
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#26
2008-07-01, 03:48 |
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Re: A random stanger or your pet dog.
My dog
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#27
2008-07-01, 04:35 |
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Re: A random stanger or your pet dog.
I would definitely pick my dog. However, were the question would I rather kill my dog or a random stranger I would have kill my dog.
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#28
2008-07-01, 17:27 |
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Re: A random stanger or your pet dog.
When asked the same question about my roommate and my chickens, I picked my chickens. He was in the same room at the time. In retrospect maybe not the best time to be honest.
Chickens...? Bro where the fuck do you live?
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#29
2008-07-01, 18:38 |
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Re: A random stanger or your pet dog.
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Originally Posted by ff420
I would definitely pick my dog. However, were the question would I rather kill my dog or a random stranger I would have kill my dog.
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Executioners in prisons have been killing strangers on the death row since the earliest civilisations.
If you were told that the stranger is a really really bad person, would you still chose your dog?
What if you were just told that the stranger deserves to die, what choice would you make then?
You see, a lot of people would do things they'd never do on their own when told to do them by others. Really sad, that. |
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#30
2008-07-01, 23:54 |
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Re: A random stanger or your pet dog.
Chickens...? Bro where the fuck do you live?
Rural Vermont
And its not that I would be affected more by their death, its that I have a greater responsibility. People are responsible for their own lives; I'm responsible for my chickens lives.
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#31
2008-07-02, 11:59 |
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Re: A random stanger or your pet dog.
Which would you pick to stay alive.
No one would ever know what you did.
I'd pick my dog.And as for ME... *Starts cracking up laughing* You know what I would pick?
Both or neither - eithers good.
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#32
2008-07-03, 16:29 |
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Re: A random stanger or your pet dog.
Hmm. See I really value human life. But I also really love my dog. I would probably choose the person, but then get all emo over my dog and it would be a very boring movie at that point. As for the me vs a bunch of other people someone brought up earlier, I'd choose the bunch of other people if it really meant the survival of the species. Of course its mostly because I watch too much Doctor Who.
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2008-07-03, 16:37 |
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Re: A random stanger or your pet dog.
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Originally Posted by Exbzurg
Hmm. See I really value human life. But I also really love my dog. I would probably choose the person, but then get all emo over my dog and it would be a very boring movie at that point. As for the me vs a bunch of other people someone brought up earlier, I'd choose the bunch of other people if it really meant the survival of the species. Of course its mostly because I watch too much Doctor Who.
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Why is the life of an ant worth any less than the life of a human? |
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2008-07-03, 16:42 |
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Re: A random stanger or your pet dog.
Why is the life of an ant worth any less than the life of a human?
Because I can't have meaningful conversations with the ant. Or have sex with it. Really, we could argue this for a long time but ultimately I do value all life, just when it comes down to it I'll choose a human to save because I can actually relate in some way to it. This was just situational. If it came down to it I'd attempt build the modern version of Noah's Ark that saves as much as I can. I'd also put bad-ass rockets and lasers on it and we would all go on a cosmic journey.
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2008-07-03, 17:49 |
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Re: A random stanger or your pet dog.
Because I can't have meaningful conversations with the ant. Or have sex with it. Really, we could argue this for a long time but ultimately I do value all life, just when it comes down to it I'll choose a human to save because I can actually relate in some way to it. This was just situational. If it came down to it I'd attempt build the modern version of Noah's Ark that saves as much as I can. I'd also put bad-ass rockets and lasers on it and we would all go on a cosmic journey.
Yeah, just being philosophical.
And why is that humans try to preserve every single species that exist on the planet nowadays? That is a bit weird, if you think about it. We're just probably afraid to screw up the Earth too much.
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2008-07-03, 21:31 |
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Re: A random stanger or your pet dog.
I don't know I never had a dog, so I don't what it feels like to have one, right now I'd pick the stranger, also cause I hate dogs.
Cats FTW!
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#37
2008-07-03, 21:46 |
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Re: A random stanger or your pet dog.
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Originally Posted by LuKaZz420
I don't know I never had a dog, so I don't what it feels like to have one, right now I'd pick the stranger, also cause I hate dogs.
Cats FTW!
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I cried for a month when my dog died. And just before that I was getting convinced that I'd become an emotionless biorobot. |
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#38
2008-07-03, 23:03 |
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Re: A random stanger or your pet dog.
I cried for a month when my dog died. And just before that I was getting convinced that I'd become an emotionless biorobot.
My dog is still with me, but I know I'd be an emotional wreck once he passes. Heck the Futurama episode 'Jurassic Bark' where Fry revisits the memories of his dog, makes me sad.
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#39
2008-07-05, 09:27 |
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Re: A random stanger or your pet dog.
It depends which dog it is. If it was one of my younger dogs, I'd pick them over the stranger in a heartbeat. If it was my 13 year old dog, I'd have to think about it. I love her, but she's lived a long and hopefully happy life, and I don't want to see her waste away as she gets older, so I might pick a stranger over her depending on what I knew about the person.
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2008-07-06, 13:27 |
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Re: A random stanger or your pet dog.
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Originally Posted by random_jew
I would of thought this but i was talking to 5 other people and 3 of them picked the stranger. 4 of us had pets.
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If you were talking to them irl of course they'll pick the stranger.
We can only admit here that we'd pick the dog because it's anonymous. |
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#41
2008-07-07, 03:41 |
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Re: A random stanger or your pet dog.
Depends, if you had to kill them yourself, like face to face, or if it's just flick a switch and one room fills with gas. Bad example, but you get my point.
I'd probably let my pet dog live, I don't know, if I happen to have an aggresive dog at that point in time, I'd probably let the stranger live.
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2008-07-10, 04:38 |
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Re: A random stanger or your pet dog.
Pet, unless the other is a child. They need a chance to live.
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#43
2008-07-10, 08:59 |
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Re: A random stanger or your pet dog.
My dog, obviously. Is this even a question that has to be asked?
see: http://www.cracked.com/article_14990_what-monkeysphere.html
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#44
2008-07-10, 11:29 |
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Re: A random stanger or your pet dog.
My dog.
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#45
2008-07-10, 20:11 |
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Re: A random stanger or your pet dog.
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Originally Posted by launchpad
Lets one up it.
Your whole family or 10 000 people in China?
Me? Fuck the 10 000 I don't know them. This is the way most people would react. There was a book or something written about this I read once...forget what the crux of it was though.
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me the 10000 people in china i hate my family |
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2008-07-10, 23:58 |
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Re: A random stanger or your pet dog.
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Originally Posted by ShoeBong
Pet, unless the other is a child. They need a chance to live.
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Question:Why dose the western world have this obsession with saving children? They are probably the most worthless members of society. |
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2008-07-11, 12:05 |
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Re: A random stanger or your pet dog.
Question:Why dose the western world have this obsession with saving children? They are probably the most worthless members of society.
You're the most worthless member of society. Leave the kids alone.
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2008-07-11, 13:20 |
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Re: A random stanger or your pet dog.
You're the most worthless member of society. Leave the kids alone.
No need to get aggressive, Im just asking why? Im undecided on the matter but Id like to hear what someone else has to say.
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2008-07-12, 04:48 |
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Re: A random stanger or your pet dog.
Can I just choose that my dog, a stranger, my family, and 10,000 chinese die? What can I say, I hope they all do.
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2008-07-12, 18:45 |
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where is my mind?
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Re: A random stanger or your pet dog.
youre a hero to one persons family if you save the stranger, you can go buy another dog.
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2008-07-12, 20:24 |
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Re: A random stanger or your pet dog.
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Originally Posted by 5MOK420
youre a hero to one persons family if you save the stranger, you can go buy another dog.
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What if the stranger doesn't have a family? Huh? THEN WHAT?! |
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