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I think your confusing breeding with tail docking.

• Declanomous 10y ago
  I'm really not. Foot binding is similarly debilitating to the squished snout. It wasn't possible to choose an example that was literally the same because human's don't breed themselves for deformities. If anything, now that we can test, many people take steps to make sure their children don't end up with debilitating traits. Having back issues when you are 60 isn't even remotely in the same league as the back issues these dogs end up with.
  • 13of40 10y ago
    > humans don't breed themselves for deformities. Except maybe intelligence, I fail to see how the traits we breed for could be considered anything but deformities if a baboon had them.
    • Asooka 10y ago
      Right now the only thing people are selecting for is wanting to breed and ability to provide for one's family. Sometimes. A study of who fucks who would be really interesting, but kind of useless because what would you do with the information?
      • redblacktree 10y ago
        That second part "ability to provide for one's family" means something though, doesn't it? Our societies aren't perfect, but "ability to provide for oneself/family" does generally mean that they have certain desirable traits.