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From a biological perspective dogs are parasites. They are hijacking our biological maternal instincts and replacing children. They drain resources and get fre

From a biological perspective dogs are parasites. They are hijacking our biological maternal instincts and replacing children. They drain resources and get free care while offering no benefit other than satisfying maternal urges which were designed to work on human babies. Puppies are 100 percent part of the reason for the westernized world’s population problem.

Arainach 1y ago
>Puppies are 100 percent part of the reason for the westernized world’s population problem. I know dozens of couples who were pairs of high earners but one quit their job to stay at home with their child because it was cheaper than paying for child care, but sure, tell yourself it's the dogs.
- ninetyninenine 1y ago
  Don’t be biased because you love dogs. Face the truth. The economy IS a factor. But sinking resources into a dog that offers no evolutionary or biological benefit IS ALSO a factor. There is no other way to look at this. You are committing an act of irrationality if you refuse to see dogs from a biological perspective. Porn sits in the same area. Hijacking biological instincts to prevent reproduction. We are looking at multiple causal sources that prevent us from having more children. In the same way men use porn to assuage our sexual urges, many women use dogs to help assuage their maternal instincts. Don’t let your emotions cloud your logic. This article did not deserve to get flagged simply for offering their own perspective.
  - Arainach 1y ago
    Dogs have nothing to do with it. People are choosing not to have kids, especially in America, because they can barely pay for rent, food, and (if they're fortunate) healthcare for themselves. Going out to eat is a luxury that even software engineers earning 6 figures are having to reevaluate with prices to say nothing of other entertainment. Third places and opportunities to meet people are greatly reduced because everything's taken over by venture capital chains and so expensive, and even if you meet someone the odds of the two of you making enough money to afford to raise a child is low. If you have that money, you're probably educated enough to see that life for your child will be significantly worse than life for you right now - the rise of authoritarianism, climate change, the active ongoing destruction of American economic power and soft political power, the concentration of wealth in fewer and fewer hands, disinformation causing massive chunks of the country to oppose science, education, and other things, discrimination based on gender and race....we're in for some very hard times and it takes a certain mindset to decide that you want to subject a child you love to all of it. It's not the dogs.
    - ninetyninenine 1y ago
      It's the economic issue AND a dogs issue AND a birth control issue AND porn a porn issue. Sperm getting launched into socks or condoms instead of vaginas, not enough money and maternal instincts being assuaged by puppies all contributes to the problem. The mechanisms that force the population to expand are designed to go against our judgement. Sexual instincts, birth control and maternal instincts are all designed to override our judgement and push the population forward at the detriment of of the human individual. Are you poor? Evolution does not give a fuck, it designed you to be horny and to have maternal instincts so you will increase the population no matter how fucked up your situation is. But thanks to modern technology we've learned to conquer these things. Puppies, condoms and porn. All contributors to the issue. Bro, I own a dog. I love dogs and condoms. Doesn't mean I'm going to let my love of dogs and condoms cloud my objective reasoning. Also I'm still going to use a condom when I fuck some random hot girl because my individual situation is more important To Me then the overall population problem. It's called the tragedy of the commons.
psunavy03 1y ago
The Western world does not have a "population problem" despite the feverish fantasies of right-wing nutjobs.
- ninetyninenine 1y ago
  You’re ignorant. Every scientific measurement from every major statistical source about these things knows that there is a population problem. It’s not even a right or left thing it’s reality. It’s science. I can source dozens of neutral sources. Look it up yourself. This is not a political issue. This is a logistical one and it is highly verified through science.
  - Arainach 1y ago
    >I can source dozens of neutral sources. Look it up yourself. The anthem of people spewing bullshit across the internet for 30 years.
    - ninetyninenine 1y ago
      Watch your tone. You are categorically ignorant to the situation at hand. I'm a moderate. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_decline https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_decline https://youtu.be/SdeoAgH-H_o?si=1-T1SGNZUyTFCFKP https://youtu.be/SdeoAgH-H_o?si=1-T1SGNZUyTFCFKP https://youtu.be/kAolCH_yXwI?si=5wOqB3xxy1e2rayu https://youtu.be/kAolCH_yXwI?si=5wOqB3xxy1e2rayu https://youtu.be/nms4BMOuDeE?si=auCl7FbXjQ-vnLED https://youtu.be/nms4BMOuDeE?si=auCl7FbXjQ-vnLED https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/population-decline-will-change-the-world-for-the-better/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/population-declin... https://www.iflscience.com/global-population-growth-is-rapidly-declining-heres-why-78166 https://www.iflscience.com/global-population-growth-is-rapid... https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11227040/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11227040/ https://www.science.org/content/article/population-tipping-point-could-arrive-2030 https://www.science.org/content/article/population-tipping-p... https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/population-decline-future-shock-no-more https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/population-dec... https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-025-04868-y https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-025-04868-y https://www.un.org/en/global-issues/population#:~:text=The%20world's%20population%20is%20projected,billion%20by%20the%20century's%20end. https://www.un.org/en/global-issues/population#:~:text=The%2... The last link is from the UN. There’s even a link from Nature. If you think population decline is political propaganda from right wing people then you are profoundly ignorant. The situation is well known factually by both sides as a logistical issue. The first countries hitting these problems are in Asia. Korea and Japan are facing the brunt of the problem head on before the rest of the westernized world faces it. The US hasn’t gotten the negative side effects of it yet as a lot of the decline is held up by immigration. Stop being emotional. Stop being angry. I own a dog myself but that does not mean I don’t face biological and logistical reality.
tacocataco 1y ago
A Dog's heightened senses are an asset when detecting intruders. I'm sure thats probably the biggest reason humanity domesticated them in the first place. If a dog keeps depression at bay, someone could possibly avoid having their brain chemistry permanently altered by owning a dog. There are even working breeds with many different purposes. It's not all black lab and American Eskimo.
- ninetyninenine 1y ago
  I mean none of this is contradictory to any of my statements. All of this can be true ALONG with my statements as well.
  - tzs 1y ago
    One of your statements was "They drain resources and get free care while offering no benefit other than satisfying maternal urges which were designed to work on human babies". Any example of a dog offering a benefit other than satisfying maternal urges contradicts that statement. In addition to the non-maternal urge satisfying benefits he named I'll give another: protecting human children. When I was around 4 our dog stopped me from going and picking up a rattlesnake. The dog blocked me from getting closer to the snake and barked until my Mom came to investigate.
    - ninetyninenine 1y ago
      I meant it in a general sense from a biological and evolutionary perspective. Obviously from other perspectives it’s different or else why would someone even own a dog if it had zero benefit?
tzs 1y ago
> Puppies are 100 percent part of the reason for the westernized world’s population problem. Isn't "100 percent" redundant here? In general X is either part of the reason for Y or X is not part of the reason for Y. I can't think of any example where X might be say 87% part of the reason for Y.
- ninetyninenine 1y ago
  It is. It’s a figure of speech emphasizing that there is no way in reality where puppies have not influenced the population problem. Saying that it has not influenced the population problem is equivalent to not living in reality.

Arainach 1y ago

>Puppies are 100 percent part of the reason for the westernized world’s population problem. I know dozens of couples who were pairs of high earners but one quit their job to stay at home with their child because it was cheaper than paying for child care, but sure, tell yourself it's the dogs.

ninetyninenine 1y ago
Don’t be biased because you love dogs. Face the truth. The economy IS a factor. But sinking resources into a dog that offers no evolutionary or biological benefit IS ALSO a factor. There is no other way to look at this. You are committing an act of irrationality if you refuse to see dogs from a biological perspective. Porn sits in the same area. Hijacking biological instincts to prevent reproduction. We are looking at multiple causal sources that prevent us from having more children. In the same way men use porn to assuage our sexual urges, many women use dogs to help assuage their maternal instincts. Don’t let your emotions cloud your logic. This article did not deserve to get flagged simply for offering their own perspective.
- Arainach 1y ago
  Dogs have nothing to do with it. People are choosing not to have kids, especially in America, because they can barely pay for rent, food, and (if they're fortunate) healthcare for themselves. Going out to eat is a luxury that even software engineers earning 6 figures are having to reevaluate with prices to say nothing of other entertainment. Third places and opportunities to meet people are greatly reduced because everything's taken over by venture capital chains and so expensive, and even if you meet someone the odds of the two of you making enough money to afford to raise a child is low. If you have that money, you're probably educated enough to see that life for your child will be significantly worse than life for you right now - the rise of authoritarianism, climate change, the active ongoing destruction of American economic power and soft political power, the concentration of wealth in fewer and fewer hands, disinformation causing massive chunks of the country to oppose science, education, and other things, discrimination based on gender and race....we're in for some very hard times and it takes a certain mindset to decide that you want to subject a child you love to all of it. It's not the dogs.
  - ninetyninenine 1y ago
    It's the economic issue AND a dogs issue AND a birth control issue AND porn a porn issue. Sperm getting launched into socks or condoms instead of vaginas, not enough money and maternal instincts being assuaged by puppies all contributes to the problem. The mechanisms that force the population to expand are designed to go against our judgement. Sexual instincts, birth control and maternal instincts are all designed to override our judgement and push the population forward at the detriment of of the human individual. Are you poor? Evolution does not give a fuck, it designed you to be horny and to have maternal instincts so you will increase the population no matter how fucked up your situation is. But thanks to modern technology we've learned to conquer these things. Puppies, condoms and porn. All contributors to the issue. Bro, I own a dog. I love dogs and condoms. Doesn't mean I'm going to let my love of dogs and condoms cloud my objective reasoning. Also I'm still going to use a condom when I fuck some random hot girl because my individual situation is more important To Me then the overall population problem. It's called the tragedy of the commons.

psunavy03 1y ago

The Western world does not have a "population problem" despite the feverish fantasies of right-wing nutjobs.

ninetyninenine 1y ago
You’re ignorant. Every scientific measurement from every major statistical source about these things knows that there is a population problem. It’s not even a right or left thing it’s reality. It’s science. I can source dozens of neutral sources. Look it up yourself. This is not a political issue. This is a logistical one and it is highly verified through science.
- Arainach 1y ago
  >I can source dozens of neutral sources. Look it up yourself. The anthem of people spewing bullshit across the internet for 30 years.
  - ninetyninenine 1y ago
    Watch your tone. You are categorically ignorant to the situation at hand. I'm a moderate. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_decline https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_decline https://youtu.be/SdeoAgH-H_o?si=1-T1SGNZUyTFCFKP https://youtu.be/SdeoAgH-H_o?si=1-T1SGNZUyTFCFKP https://youtu.be/kAolCH_yXwI?si=5wOqB3xxy1e2rayu https://youtu.be/kAolCH_yXwI?si=5wOqB3xxy1e2rayu https://youtu.be/nms4BMOuDeE?si=auCl7FbXjQ-vnLED https://youtu.be/nms4BMOuDeE?si=auCl7FbXjQ-vnLED https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/population-decline-will-change-the-world-for-the-better/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/population-declin... https://www.iflscience.com/global-population-growth-is-rapidly-declining-heres-why-78166 https://www.iflscience.com/global-population-growth-is-rapid... https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11227040/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11227040/ https://www.science.org/content/article/population-tipping-point-could-arrive-2030 https://www.science.org/content/article/population-tipping-p... https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/population-decline-future-shock-no-more https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/population-dec... https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-025-04868-y https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-025-04868-y https://www.un.org/en/global-issues/population#:~:text=The%20world's%20population%20is%20projected,billion%20by%20the%20century's%20end. https://www.un.org/en/global-issues/population#:~:text=The%2... The last link is from the UN. There’s even a link from Nature. If you think population decline is political propaganda from right wing people then you are profoundly ignorant. The situation is well known factually by both sides as a logistical issue. The first countries hitting these problems are in Asia. Korea and Japan are facing the brunt of the problem head on before the rest of the westernized world faces it. The US hasn’t gotten the negative side effects of it yet as a lot of the decline is held up by immigration. Stop being emotional. Stop being angry. I own a dog myself but that does not mean I don’t face biological and logistical reality.

tacocataco 1y ago

A Dog's heightened senses are an asset when detecting intruders. I'm sure thats probably the biggest reason humanity domesticated them in the first place. If a dog keeps depression at bay, someone could possibly avoid having their brain chemistry permanently altered by owning a dog. There are even working breeds with many different purposes. It's not all black lab and American Eskimo.

ninetyninenine 1y ago
I mean none of this is contradictory to any of my statements. All of this can be true ALONG with my statements as well.
- tzs 1y ago
  One of your statements was "They drain resources and get free care while offering no benefit other than satisfying maternal urges which were designed to work on human babies". Any example of a dog offering a benefit other than satisfying maternal urges contradicts that statement. In addition to the non-maternal urge satisfying benefits he named I'll give another: protecting human children. When I was around 4 our dog stopped me from going and picking up a rattlesnake. The dog blocked me from getting closer to the snake and barked until my Mom came to investigate.
  - ninetyninenine 1y ago
    I meant it in a general sense from a biological and evolutionary perspective. Obviously from other perspectives it’s different or else why would someone even own a dog if it had zero benefit?

tzs 1y ago

> Puppies are 100 percent part of the reason for the westernized world’s population problem. Isn't "100 percent" redundant here? In general X is either part of the reason for Y or X is not part of the reason for Y. I can't think of any example where X might be say 87% part of the reason for Y.

ninetyninenine 1y ago
It is. It’s a figure of speech emphasizing that there is no way in reality where puppies have not influenced the population problem. Saying that it has not influenced the population problem is equivalent to not living in reality.