Puppy or Hobo???

OK. This one is pretty straightforward. Let's say you have to kill something. I don't know why--maybe terrorists kidnapped your family or something--but you have to kill. And you are forced to choose between killing a hobo or a puppy. Which would you choose?

(As a decision-making aid I've included photos of a puppy and a hobo below.)

Dead hobo.

Aw, crap! I accidentally killed the puppy! Mods, is there any way to fix my vote? I'm so embarrased.

Hmmmm, tough call. Could it be a really sick puppy? Or a hobo that deserved killing?

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Both would have no problems shitting all over your carpet. So I'll have to kill the more smelly one.

Yeah, that, and which one would you rather let sleep in the bed with you....

Actually, both pictures make me feel very sad.

-J.

Did anyone notice that rodent in a cage in the background? Is that dog the hobo's dog?

Ok, Dan Leach would rather have the Hobo sleeping in his bed with him.


Everyone make a note.

I'd kill 'em both, harvest and sell the hobo's organs, then make my grandpa a sandwich!

Seriously, though, both pictures make me sad. The puppy because it looks like wherever it is isn't clean or safe, and it looks like a stray (no collar or ID).

The hobo pic makes me sad because it looks like he's scrounged up whatever he can eat, and you know it's not going to be enough. From the surrounding environment it looks cold, and he doesn't have a place of protection from the cold.

So I would keep the puppy with me, and find the hobo a nice home. Both deserve a warm place to sleep and good food to eat.

I think I just brought the fun down a notch.

-J.

This makes the Baby Cthuhlu cry.



You really shouldn't make the Baby Cthuhlu cry...

Is there any other kind?

Feeling a tad melancholy J?

The puppy looks fine plus she has a squirrel sniffing her ass, dogs love that.

The hobo photo is yet another example of a well fed homeless person.

Unless Baby Cthulhu is the pussified version of his father I don't think killing a hobo and a puppy then making your grandfather soup would make him cry.

Just a bit melancholy, yes.

-J.

In a libertarian society, the hobo would have just died, ending his miserable existence in the gutter. It's immoral how modern society is prolonging his suffering.

If the puppy was a Corgi, I'd make chopmeat paddies out of it and sell burgers in front of Buckingham Palace.

I've capped dozens of puppies, no one ever ditches hobos.

Kill teh baba!

If I'm only allowed one kill. If I'm not limited, kill all three!

Pshaw, I'd go to kill the hobo, discover that he's Jack Bauer in disguise, and that the puppy is actually a vicious killing machine. Then I'd enlist their help in killing the terrorists.

Somehow, I imagined myself holding a gun and shaking all over, screaming and crying and begging not to have to do it, but having to decide which one I'd feel less bad about.
I picked the puppy and nearly cried.

I could kill a dog to save my family. A human being makes the issue stickier.

Is a Hobo the same thing as a homeless person? What I mean is, are all homeless people Hobo's, or are Hobo's a subspecies of homeless person?

When I see that picture, I think, "homeless person", but when I think Hobo, I think of guys riding in box cars and playing "Big Rock Candy Mountain" on a harmonica.

There is another kind?????

I think hobos are homeless that ride trains.

I think it's sort of like callin' chimps "monkeys". We all know there's a difference, but "monkey" sounds cooler than "ape" or "chimp".

Oooh... I should'a added "clown" to the list. Mimes would be right up there. And Emmet Kelly would be doubly hosed.

Killing the puppy is what does it. Even Cthuhlu likes puppies and kittens.