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Originally posted by MarchHare@Sep 8 2005, 05:48 PM
The below sentence doesn't seem too uncaring or uncommon:
"Remember when your dog died when you were seven and you cried and cried until we got you another one?"
Now replace the word "dog" in that sentence with "brother" and it just doesn't work.
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I really really dislike this post. I realize that you did not say that everyone is of this train of thought, and surely a bunch of people are, but a pet becomes part of the family. It is not human, but it is a family member just the same.
Would I save a human over a pet? Probably. But I'd try my absolute hardest to save both. Those kind of questions are pointless however...
So no...for me that sentence does seem vastly uncaring, and very out of place with "dog" in it.
Another dog does not replace a dog that you have lost, just like another brother does not replace the one you already have.