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If you had a car with seats covered in the skin of dead dogs, I would not get in your car, and neither would most people. Why is it such a stretch to understan
by user-the-name 5y ago
If you had a car with seats covered in the skin of dead dogs, I would not get in your car, and neither would most people.
Why is it such a stretch to understand that someone might have the same reaction with a slightly different animal?
- tsimionescu 5y agoI would bet that most people would actually get in that car - assuming the "skin" is leather and not rotting dry skin, of course.
- user-the-name 5y agoIf they knew what it was? I would find it very surprising if anyone was OK with that.
- gambiting 5y agoWhy? How is that different than sitting on lamb or rabbit leather? Those are also very cute animals. You wouldn't be able to tell if you looked at it. My mum used to have a blanket made out of cat fur for a while.....it's just leather - It's only weird if you make it weird :-P Also, in general it's a very weird comparison, but I'm not even making fun out of the guy for refusing a ride - I just think it's a weird moral stance to take, I can understand refusing to buy some leather seats, but riding in them? Especially as a favour? What does that change in the world? Literally nothing.
- user-the-name 5y agoWho says it's a moral stance? You can just be grossed out by the thought of sitting on the skin of a dead animal.
- gambiting 5y agoWell, he did, explicitly, for one.
- ClumsyPilot 5y agoI dont think the spesific animal makes a difference, that would be rather hypocritical. The only exception would be ivirt or like some threatened or near-extinct animal that you went out of your way to aquire, I know people who do that for handbags, and that is something i find appauling
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y ago> I dont think the spesific animal makes a difference, that would be rather hypocritical. You say that like people aren't often hypocritical. If I raised and slaughtered dogs for food you'd better believe I'd be hearing about it from people who eat meat with every meal!
- user-the-name 5y agoBut the specific animal does make a difference, if you ask nearly anyone. And yes, that is massively hypocritical. That is my entire point.
- noduerme 5y agoWell, of course you wouldn't get in, because someone with a car upholstered in dog skin would probably be a fucking serial killer.
- user-the-name 5y agoWell, yes, that is the impression you'd get if it were dog skin. But if it's cow skin, you are expected to be absolutely fine with it and if you find it distasteful you get mocked.
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- gambiting 5y agoI don't know, I actually find it very good that we use all parts of the animal, and the skin is used for something as practical as a seat/chair. Skinning and tanning is one of those skills that we as humans have developed over millenia and it helped us become who we are as a species - to now behave as if it's distatesful....it's just a bit fake to me, a bit dishonest. You are of course welcome to feel this way, I just think it's a weird thing to be weird about.
- galangalalgol 5y agoThere are plenty of places dogs and cats are accepted as food animals. Surely those places use the leather too? Some of those places are net exporters, so it seems reasonable some of our leather goods are dog or cat but labeled otherwise.
- pvaldes 5y agoCan't wait for the day when this people finally realize that they are filling the car three times a week with a distilled juice of dead corpses called gasoline. Cars are basically sacrificial altar machines requiring a daily offer of blood and flesh from prehistoric animals to keep moving... and they are worried by the leather in other's cars while driving home, pfff.