[Ammi]

..there are lots of these hypothetical/potential dilemmas about and it's sometimes said that people would save their pets in certain situations..a much loved family pet over a stranger etc...it may not be my thought process to do so but I think it's completely understandable as well because it's relating something of how totally devastated they know that they would feel if they lost their own pet and yes it's an animal and not a human but they can still directly relate how heart breaking it would be to lose that pet..whereas with a stranger..I don't think the thought process is that they would be of less 'value' than an animal but just that it would be much more difficult to relate and imagine the 'loss of them'...and it's just a 'hypothetical' anyway so it's just what the mind would 'imagine' the reaction to be...and I don't think those kind of associations and relating of emotions would have any sociopath indications at all...