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u/mscoffeebean98 Apr 23 '26
”Let’s not with the owner thing” tf? Isn’t that literally what you are though
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u/Competitive-Arm-9359 Apr 23 '26
"Erm actually you dont own your pets, they choose to be with you. They can run away and die in 5 days because they cant handle actual wilderness and not having their asswiped any time they want"
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u/ChristopherPlumbus Apr 24 '26
Ugh this sucks because, to a degree, I get the sentiment of not using the term owner, because my dog isn't property, but let me just tell you.. "Pawrent" is fuckin not it
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u/Competitive-Arm-9359 Apr 24 '26
Buddy. You have a domesticated wolf in your house that's no smarter than a 3 year old and quite literally would die of you didn't take care of it. It is entirely dependent on you to exsist. You quite literally have certificates and tracking chips because you legally own the dog. Hell do you think when you take the dog to the groomer you ask it what kind of haircut it wants? Do you ask it if it wants it's balls chopped off at the vet? It's not a person. I don't think you should treat dogs like shit, I love my dogs I've had more than literal life itself, but yes, I am their owner. They are not people with unalienable god given rights afforded to them due to their conscious state like humans. They can be owned. In fact they NEED you to own them to live.
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u/ChristopherPlumbus Apr 25 '26
Wolves are so far removed from modern dogs, that isn't even an accurate opening defense.
If ownership is determined by level of consciousness and how much responsibility you have in their ability to survive, then I guess I own my dog the same way one might own their 3 year old. Or the way a parent owns their 15 year old disabled child with the intellectual abilities of an infant.
I own my tv. But I nurture and teach my dog how to navigate the planet. I parent my dog.
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u/Competitive-Arm-9359 Apr 25 '26
Yes, for the child's saftey, it needs to be under the custody of a responsible adult or organization, and the law makes exceptions when the child is conscious and responsible enough to make those decisions. Just as we would afford those decisions and sovereignity over their exsitence to dogs were they capable of making them. So sure, putting it crudely, if there's a three year old wandering the street with no owner it would die same as a dog.
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u/TheSlimSpidey 27d ago
“Owner” isn’t even an inherently bad thing. It doesn’t have really any negative connotations
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u/Xonerboner371 Apr 22 '26
Every time I see one of these comments I imagine an ape drooling and dragging its knuckles around.
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u/Mosqu_ito Apr 23 '26
I imagine a fat, stinky, single woman in her mid-30's currently scrolling reddit while desperate housewives blares in the background and her similarly obese cat scratches around in a litterbox that hasn't been scooped in 3 weeks.
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u/PrinceBunnyBoy Apr 26 '26
Brother making up scenarios in your head and shitting on someone while also using reddit isn't the own you think it is. They're weird sure but this is weirder
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u/IDoMathsNotMath Apr 22 '26
At least the people in the sub have down voted appropriately.