Would You Save Your Dog Over a Stranger?

So I asked her, "May I ask why you're a vegetarian?" She said, "Sure, because we have no right to kill animals." And I remember thinking when I heard that part that I respect that. We could live on non-animal food. So she says we have no right to kill animals, but she didn't stop there. She said, who are we humans to say that we are more valuable than animals? And I remember my shock. I was shocked. I had never heard that before. And so I said to her, well, wait a minute. I totally get it that we may not have a right to kill animals when we have an alternative source food. Food source. But we're not more valuable than animals? Well, let me ask you a question, thinking this was a rhetorical question. Which would you save first if both were drowning, a person or an animal? Or I think I specifically said a stranger or your dog, or a dog, or your dog? I guess it was your dog. And there was no answer. She just was— she was just quiet. I said, I'm sorry, did you hear my question? She said, yes, I'm thinking. And the skies opened up, and I thought, she's just Thinking? You mean there's something to think about? Would you save a dog or a person first? And then what I did based on one example is I made a gigantic generalization that this woman represents vast numbers of people because we live in a secular age. And when you drop people being created in God's image, you end up with human-animal equality.