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Re:US Rules Airlines Must Allow Miniature Horses to Fly as S... by ravenstine on Friday August 09, 2019 @11:39AM (#20655358)
It's kind of disturbing that we've got 7+ billion human beings but we're so disconnected from each other that people are increasingly resorting to animals for comfort and friendship.
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Re:US Rules Airlines Must Allow Miniature Horses to Fly as S... by moate on Friday August 09, 2019 @11:51AM (#20655465)
eh?

This isn't a new thing. There have always been people who prefer the company of animals to people, even centuries ago when people were more "connected to each other". If it's more frequently seen now, you can just as easily attribute that to there now being 7+ billion people, so if X% of the population prefers animals to people, X will be a greater number as the population increases.

Some people just don't like people. That's fine.

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Re:US Rules Airlines Must Allow Miniature Horses to Fly as S... by avian on Friday August 09, 2019 @12:05PM (#20655608)
The new thing might be that some people who would otherwise prefer the company of people over animals can't get it and settle for a pet instead. Articles on the "loneliness epidemic" get posted quite frequently on HN:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=loneliness

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