I have never understood people who care more about animals than they do other people. I never will, but I wished you well anyway. What more do you want?
What do I want? For people making judgments about me or giving me advice to at least make a fair analysis of what is actually driving my decision, and it is much more complex than just some misguided affection for animals over people, which is not in anything I have said.
I believe there are animals that are much more worthy of my love and affection than some humans.
I do not intrinisically value the life of a human just because they look like me, but value them because they are life. That doesn't mean I would treat them like animals.
But the obverse is also not true...while I value animals because they live, I do not intrinsically value them just because they are life. I believe there are animals that were put here for me to eat and sole my shoes with. Some were also put here to give me love, and vice versa.
Giving a choice between saving an anonymous human and my favorite cat or dog, I will have to choose the human. Just the way it is.
Giving a choice between saving Osama Bin Laden or Jeffrey Dahlmer and my favorite cat or dog, there is no contest. The paw is going to be in my hand.
Bottom line, I think there are some people who aren't worth the effort it takes to spit on 'em. And I think there are some animals I would run into a burning house to save. But the rules are never fast and true.