[bitcharmer]

Let's 100% reverse your argument and see where this takes us, shall we?

Say you choose your dog over a stranger. Then your dog went and killed another person. Would you regret your decision?

[notRobot]

Like I've explained above, the reason I'd be willing to choose my dog over a stranger is because I know what my dog is like. I know he's never going to kill anyone. I know nothing about the stranger.

But yes, I would regret it if he went and killed someone after I chose his life over a human's.

I would also deeply regret it if I chose a stranger over my dog and then that person turned out to be a Bad Guy.

[antisthenes]

There's no need to engage in hypotheticals here.

Statistically speaking, dogs are much less likely per capita to injure/kill a human, than a human doing the same to another human.

Humans are violent apes, whereas dogs (with very few breeds being exceptions) have been bred for 5,000 years for docility/companionship.

[bitcharmer]

> There's no need to engage in hypotheticals here

Yet here we are, hypothesising.

Also, statistically speaking dogs are less likely to come up with new methods of improving life on earth or even simply helping out other creatures in need.