I would save my cat every time. I don't value human life above her life. She's been there for me for the past 15 years and helped me through the darkest times.

1. Cat
2. Cat
3. Cat

EDIT: If you need a serious #3 answer, one aspect is that my cat is dependent on me. That's the relationship I accepted when I chose to take care of a domestic animal. My enemies, or strangers, are not my dependents. They are not vulnerable in that sense.

I would save YOUR cat before my worst enemy, and I don't even like cats. Is that bad?

I dislike the belief that human life is worth more than any other animal.

Even if we're going to argue that, because of intellect or the ability to grasp out own existence or whatever arbitrary philosophical reason we'fe going to come up it, a human life is in general more valuable than that of a cats life, my "worst enemy" would have to be someone so morally corrupt that removing them from the world would make it a better place. This makes is a very pointless question.

A stranger is more of a real discussion. The stranger is enough of an unknown factor that I think I could assume that allowing them to die is likely to have a worse impact on the world, so it makes sense to save them. I certainly wouldn't be able to say so with enough certainty to fault anyone for disagreeing with me, though.

Kind of curious who your enemies are, OP.

The ones I haven't met personally are causing the deaths of millions of people.

The ones I have met personally are rapists and child abusers.

Would you save those kinds of people instead of saving a cat to whom you have a duty of care?

1. Cat
2. Cat
3. Cat

My favorite thing about this post is that question 2 is asked based on the assumption that you've answered question 1 correctly by picking "cat".

I don’t even love cats and I’d still save your sister’s cat over my worse enemy!!! LOL

I have no enemies

My cat and it's not a hard decision

Gonna change your question to "dog", as that's what I have

1. I would choose basically any other life over my worst enemy's. In a choice between them and no one, I'd save no one. I feel you don't understand how emnity works.
2. Better question, dog,
3. because he's a member of my family that I'm responsible for. As annoying as his theivery is and as bad as his farts are, he's my friend. Would you choose a stranger over one of your friends?

1. My thrift store dollar bin reject rescue cats without a moment's hesitation
2. Cats
3. I promised my cats I would care for them all their days

my worse enemy is the father of my friend who abused her when she was a kid, and watched CP, i don't know him, i don't want to know him, and if i had the chance to let him die in front of me, i wouldn't hesitate to let it happen, and make earth a better place

If you don't want your worst enemies dead they aren't much of a enemy.

Cat

My cats are my family, so they have priority over most humans. This would only be a tough situation if it were between my cats and my best friend because I consider her to be family too. But, in that case, I would say screw the "you can only save one" mentality, I'd become like a mom who can lift a car off her baby, and somehow save them all.

There's about 8 billion Humans, and about half of them suck more than any friendly domestic animal. The worst? I'd create an emergency.

It's a moral dilemma between a life and a life, one is not lesser than the other regardless of whether one is human or not, so the issue then becomes which one is more valuable.
But valuable to whom?
Society? I may think my worst enemy is a bastard but they're likely to be a productive member of society.
But valuable to me personally? I'm picking my cat every single time, it's like asking to pick between your worst enemy and your child, it doesn't even require weighing the options.

1. Cat
2. Stranger
3. I would not piss on my worst enemy if they where on fire. Stranger well , human Vs animal life.

Pets are family. I'd choose my pets over strangers life any day and not feel bad. Hell, I might choose my pet over someone I know.

could have been between the cat and myself. The cat still gets preference.

My wife > dogs > myself.

List stops there.

1. my dog.

2. my dog.

3. people suck. They don't deserve dogs. Consider me John Wick. I would choose to wipe out 10,000 strangers to protect my dog.

My cats are extremely cute and my enemies are extremely bad people.

Cat

Society has deemed that a human life is more valuable than another animal, but that doesn't mean that this applies to everyone. I'd save my dogs over a stranger sure, but I'd sure make an effort to save both. The value of a life on a personal basis is primarily driven by how connected you are with them.

I would save my cat over pretty much anyone because taking him in meant being there for him and protecting him. I would move mountains for that guy

I have a dog, so I'll apply that.

1. Dog.
2. Dog.
3. In scenario 1, I not only have a good reason to save my dog, but also let my worst enemy die. In scenario 2 it's more complicated, but my dog trusts me, and the stranger has no such expectations (I hope). Lastly, for both cases, there's no way to regret death. They won't be able to care. Humans can also much better understand the current situation than a dog/cat.

My cat. There are plenty of moral and ethical arguments to say I'm wrong about this, but still - cat.

Theres a pretty short list of people I would like to see dead... trump, putin,un,mcconnell for examples... my dog definitely deserves life over those pathetic excuses for human beings

Who is more likely to be able to save themselves? Like, if it's a fire I'm getting the people out, the cats will get themselves out. If someone is getting pushed off a 3 story building? The cat, more likely to survive.

Water rising? I am grabbing the cat, the person can figure out something for themselves.

So, you mean something like, would I save my cat or Putin? The answer is - my cat. When it comes to strangers, I feel it's more difficult and depends on many factors.

There’s only one person I’d pick over my cat, so, sorry guys.

I'd pick any random manatee over a human.
Why? Manatees seem nicer than humans, as far as I can tell.

I don't know that much about manatees though, given a sniff of power maybe they'd turn into arseholes too; but I think I'd rather someone else had a turn than yet more humans.