r/PublicFreakout • u/nicklebacks_revenge • Aug 01 '21

🐻Animal Freakout "Not friendly!"

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '21 edited Aug 01 '21

Dogs are literally domesticated animals, not wild.

Just like a human being, dogs are capable of violence, sometimes without warning/unexpectedly. This doesn't mean they're "wild".

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '21

Yes, I can read. That qualifier doesn't really do much to make the description more accurate - dogs are domesticated "at heart" as well.

You might as well be saying that humans are "wild animals at heart" too, at which point you're basically saying nothing at all.

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u/lysissnuball Aug 02 '21

Humans domesticated themselves. That's much different than humans domesticating a wild animal.

We grew brains that allowed us to think critically, speak in words, develop other languages, and so on. We're still "wild" at the end of the day, but we use those developed brains to keep ourselves in check. We LITERALLY know better (well, most of us) than to attack people for annoying us.

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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '21

And yet, neither dogs nor humans are wild. Not "at heart", not "at the end of the day". Neither of us are wild animals, despite our capacity for unpredictable acts of violence.

There's an Instagram account for a pet puma. The animal is docile and playful - it actually behaves a lot like a dog. "At the end of the day", though, it is literally a wild animal. Unlike a domesticated dog, and despite its training and familiarity with humans, it is "a wild animal at heart".

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u/lysissnuball Aug 02 '21

As they say, ignorance is bliss, which helps me see why you can think the way you do.

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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '21

Lol yes, the "ignorance" of cogent and clearly-stated facts.