Posted: Nov 11, 2014 5:13 am
The_Metatron wrote:My dog has a cancer mass that will kill her. I can pay $1100 and maybe extend her life another two to twelve months. This is a first world problem.
Or, I could give that $1100 to some random kid with cancer.
Ethics dictates my dog should not get that money.
This is fucking with me. I like my dog very much.
Presumably your dog is within your Dunbar's Number while some random kid isn't. But then what if you met the kid and/or his family in person? Would that change the ethical calculus? Should it?
Do you think that a dog's life is worth more, less or the same as a human's? Why?
Is it more ethical to give the money to an impoverished family trying to escape a war zone (or an organisation which helps families escape from war zones) than it is to give it to a kid with cancer? Is there an even more ethical use of the money than that? Where does it end? What is the most ethical thing you could possibly do with the money, and why?