My Dog or Your Child? Ethical Dilemmas and the Hierarchy of Moral Value

Dr. Steven Best in Impact on his speech at the University of Iowa after an Animal Liberation Front raid on its Psychology Department laboratory.

But despite the Sturm und Drang of the occasion, it was my parenthetical response to the burning house question during the Q&A-whereby I said I would save my dog over a human stranger-that made headlines in newspapers and blogs throughout the nation.