Why do some people value animals over human lives?

[QUOTE=oarabbus]

If there was a human being trapped on one side, and 10 animals on the other... sorry Fido, but I'm saving the human being. Again, I am NOT condoning any kind of violence or mistreatment of animals, but does anyone else out there consider a human life to be more valuable than that of an animal? PETA types will absolutely roast you for being an animal hater and despicable person for saying this, but don't explain their logic.[/QUOTE]

The deal is that a human being knows that it can die, without being confronted by death itself. So the one human quite possibly got there by his own mistake or wrong doings. The animals not. They don't know what a train is or that it might kill them. In the very last moment they maybe get it.

Not saying I'd take the animals over the human, I generally hate these scenarios(kill one save the other) and couldn't decide. Basically I'd try to save both.