Was the Sam the dog choice REWRITTEN?
Yo so originally Sam the dog was meant to be either set free or killed, instead of killed or left to die. I say this because the choice is called "mercy" the dictionary definition for mercy in case you didn't is compassion or forgiveness shown towards someone whom it is within one's power to punish or harm. Also when Luke and Pete show up, Clem only has the option to say I killed the dog (in explaining his fate) she doesn't get to say i left him to die or put him out of his misery, because it was never meant to happen! it was meant to be that u either let the dog go, or killed it. This is why Luke gets so upset!!! telltale re wrote it so that Clem actually does the right thing by killing sam, instead of leaving him to suffer!! does this make sense?? That would of been so much better....coz if you don't kill sam when he's already going to die/suffering ur just awful. but if sam had been ok and u have to choose after he attacked u, it would of been harder for some. they probably rewrote it like this because it could of been seen as animal cruelty to kill an alive/okay dog
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Mercy can also be used with the term "mercy killing" as in putting someone or thing out of it's misery so it can feel less pain. I'm guessing it was used to say did you show mercy or did you not. Also it what would Luke and Pete think of her if she said she left it there to die :P
ur raining on my parade mate
Why would Clem need to kill the dog? Nobody would just kill it.
i rain on everybody's parade you ain't special bruh
your response cracked me up xD i agree with Green613.
i get what you mean about luke getting mad, because obviously you would clarify the killing of a dog with an explanation, if i had to mercy kill a dog and i told somebody i did that, i would always tell them with an explanation that it was to end the dogs suffering, not just say "i killed a dog" and leave it at that, so even though i think it is possible that things were rewritten and the explanation of why the dog was killed was never recorded, as has been said "mercy kill" is a thing so the "mercy" part of your post doesn't really work