GENB 4350 Assignment 1 Not even three months ago did I have a massive moral quandary in which I had to choose between saving my dog’s life or letting him suffer for the rest of his life. Last year my dog, Milo, suddenly required surgery because of a ruptured disk in his back. At any given time would he go into fits of screaming. This would happen when he was moved in a way that hurt his back. It was hard to watch him cry out in a way I had never heard him before. Me and my family were only given two options – paying the full sum of $2000 to treat him or just have him in linger in pain until he could not handle it any longer, and put him to sleep. In the end, after cutting some of my expenses and with some help we ended up paying the full amount and getting him back into his old self again. It was not a decision my family wanted to rush into. When they rationalized it, it just did not make much sense to them …show more content…
I now considered him a member of the people I call family. Thinking about it ethically, we know that lives are precious. In the same way that people do not hesitate to put forth money to care for a child that has a condition or their grandparents that are unable to care for themselves, people take care of their pets if they are valuable enough to them as well. Sure, Milo is simply a dog and most people would not put a dog on the same footing as their kids, and in truth if it had been any other dog I would not have gone through with the procedure. But Milo is different because he has been in my life for many years and, to me, he is extremely important. Many people in this country have unpaid debts, it is just the kind of society that we live in. Plenty of people spend money on more useless things that do not reap the same benefits. I feel that at least the money I saved up went towards something that I felt was worthwhile, and I still do not regret the