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Fireside Chat with Dennis Prager | PragerU

Fireside Chat Ep. 78 - Save Your Dog or Save a Stranger?

Fireside Chat with Dennis Prager | PragerU

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How To, Education, Self-improvement

4.85.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

During this week’s Fireside Chat, Dennis revisits the question: Would you save your dog or a stranger first if both were drowning? Dennis reads viewers’ reactions and comments from when this question was posed in the past. The responses show what happens when your morals are guided by your feelings rather than a religious moral code. Dennis continues on to answer your questions. Ask Dennis a Question at the top of this page: https://www.prageru.com/fireside-chats/ • Would You Save Your Dog or a Stranger? • When You Don’t Have a Moral Code • Big Tech Censorship • The Muslim Veil and Hijab Are Not Empowering • How Do We Make America Great Again? • The Founding Fathers Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi everybody, I'm Dennis Prager and welcome to my Fireside Chat. It's my home, it's my chair,

0:06.3

it's my fire, it's my dog, is that a zatto in there? I'm telling you, you know what the beautiful

0:12.8

thing is, Otto's fame has not gone to his head. He's one of the best known dogs in the world right now

0:22.5

and nothing, it's like it has not affected him whatsoever. You gotta say this is a remarkable

0:29.9

creature which will be perfect in light if the subject I want to talk to you about. And by the way,

0:35.5

world is pretty accurate because I just want to note that recent Fireside viewers comments came from

0:42.8

Bulgaria, Saudi Arabia, Germany, Australia, the Czech Republic, Luxembourg, Scotland and we'll have

0:51.3

questions from other countries entirely as well. So that's, oh I should read, that's right, I gotta

0:56.6

read this. So that's a, it's a good thing because what I have to say is not bound to any ethnic

1:05.4

or religious or national group. I've always said either what you have to say is universally applicable

1:14.0

or it's not applicable to anybody. That's my belief, it's been my belief my whole life.

1:20.8

So it makes sense to me that there would be people listening in different parts of the world,

1:24.8

why not? Because there is one thing we can all share and that's logic, common sense. If something

1:34.4

makes sense, it makes sense. Okay, so anyway, welcome. Now listen to this, so this is what I always

1:43.6

discuss something and then I take your questions. So I am told by the folks who monitor the website

1:52.3

that a while ago when I discussed in passing, it wasn't the key subject of the opening,

2:01.5

but I discussed the issue of would you save your dog or a stranger first that both were drowning.

2:08.2

This has been one of the most controversial positions I have ever taken and I have been asking

2:14.9

this question since my 20s. I've been asking this my whole life and the same exact responses when I

2:22.3

asked this one I was in my 20s and today, 40 something years later and it is just, it's astonishing.

2:32.4

One third, in almost every instance, one third vote for the dog, one third for the stranger,

2:38.2

one third doesn't know because I give the option if you don't know how you would what you would do,

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