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And then you're forcing dog-owners (which is a bigger and bigger percentage of the population) to rely on cars.

midoridensha 4y ago
No, re-read my last paragraph. As long as their dog is small, they can take the train no problem. If they have a large dog, they should already own a car. Apartments in Tokyo do NOT allow large dogs, and anyone living outside the city should already have a car anyway. If you can't afford a car, you can't afford a large dog. I live in Tokyo; there's almost no large dogs here. Having a large dog is a luxury.
- paganel 4y ago
  I was thinking mostly about outside of Japan, where the same discourse of "why do you need a car for?" has beginning to show up more and more. I need a car because otherwise having some outside activities with my dog is close to impossible, but I would love to have the possibility of not having to have a car while still giving my (medium-sized) dog a decent outdoor life. > I live in Tokyo; there's almost no large dogs here. Having a large dog is a luxury. Which I find sad that we've basically internalised and made it a normalcy. The same and even more so goes to having kids. Having a dog (or a pet, more generally) shouldn't be a luxury, because it gives one a better life (having kids even more so, but as I don't have any I can't comment on that).
  - midoridensha 4y ago
    >but I would love to have the possibility of not having to have a car while still giving my (medium-sized) dog a decent outdoor life. You can have one or the other. Owning a dog is a ridiculous luxury for ultra-wealthy people; go back 150 years and this was exactly the case, but now somehow people have come to expect it. >Having a dog (or a pet, more generally) shouldn't be a luxury, because it gives one a better life (having kids even more so, but as I don't have any I can't comment on that). No, it really doesn't. It's horrible for the environment, and it's bad for society and is a disruption and inconvenience to people around you. The idea that dogs should be commonplace is utterly ridiculous and downright offensive, and similar to the idea that carrying guns should be commonplace and normal. And then you compare it to having kids. Do you realize how many children are maimed, disfigured, and killed every year by pet dogs?

No, re-read my last paragraph. As long as their dog is small, they can take the train no problem. If they have a large dog, they should already own a car. Apartments in Tokyo do NOT allow large dogs, and anyone living outside the city should already have a car anyway. If you can't afford a car, you can't afford a large dog. I live in Tokyo; there's almost no large dogs here. Having a large dog is a luxury.

paganel 4y ago
I was thinking mostly about outside of Japan, where the same discourse of "why do you need a car for?" has beginning to show up more and more. I need a car because otherwise having some outside activities with my dog is close to impossible, but I would love to have the possibility of not having to have a car while still giving my (medium-sized) dog a decent outdoor life. > I live in Tokyo; there's almost no large dogs here. Having a large dog is a luxury. Which I find sad that we've basically internalised and made it a normalcy. The same and even more so goes to having kids. Having a dog (or a pet, more generally) shouldn't be a luxury, because it gives one a better life (having kids even more so, but as I don't have any I can't comment on that).
- midoridensha 4y ago
  >but I would love to have the possibility of not having to have a car while still giving my (medium-sized) dog a decent outdoor life. You can have one or the other. Owning a dog is a ridiculous luxury for ultra-wealthy people; go back 150 years and this was exactly the case, but now somehow people have come to expect it. >Having a dog (or a pet, more generally) shouldn't be a luxury, because it gives one a better life (having kids even more so, but as I don't have any I can't comment on that). No, it really doesn't. It's horrible for the environment, and it's bad for society and is a disruption and inconvenience to people around you. The idea that dogs should be commonplace is utterly ridiculous and downright offensive, and similar to the idea that carrying guns should be commonplace and normal. And then you compare it to having kids. Do you realize how many children are maimed, disfigured, and killed every year by pet dogs?