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dogs don't have agency. I get that they have different conformation and temperaments, but every single one of them is the responsibility of their owner. what
by motohagiography 2y ago
dogs don't have agency. I get that they have different conformation and temperaments, but every single one of them is the responsibility of their owner.
what bothers me about "research" like this is that it is designed remove agency from the owners and fearful anxious and irresponsible people, turn it into regulatory power, and undermines my culture, which has lived in harmony with other beings in nature for millennia.
- red-iron-pine 2y ago> and undermines my culture, which has lived in harmony with other beings in nature for millennia. what culture and other beings is that? pick a culture and i'm sure I can find plenty of wars and misery and exploitation of the environment. this reads like Noble Savage living in harmony with Gaia
- motohagiography 2y agoessentially european descent, landowners. horsemen, peasants, yeomen, etc. not of cities, mainly. people from more urbanized cultures aren't usually as acclimatized to dealing with animals and don't recognize it as a competence or skill. everyone can learn, but chances are if you have been in a city for generations, it's not as normal. if you didn't learn, and see them mainly as symbols and objects instead of beings, you're going to be a crappy dog owner who ends up in a study like this. living with animals as pets, especially indoors, and barring some of the asian horse cultures, is pretty western-coded.