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Re:Egg Prices Are Soaring. Are Backyard Chickens the Answer? by TeMPOraL on Thursday February 20, 2025 @06:30AM (#43113493)
That's straight from the TV trope book, this is how movies/shows portray Evil Organization training ruthless spy assassins (except usually it's a dog, and they have to kill it themselves).
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Re:Egg Prices Are Soaring. Are Backyard Chickens the Answer? by swiftcoder on Thursday February 20, 2025 @07:53AM (#43114085)
Most tropes have some basis in reality. I've met a few farm-owning parents who view any kind of sentimentality towards animals as counterproductive.
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Re:Egg Prices Are Soaring. Are Backyard Chickens the Answer? by TeMPOraL on Thursday February 20, 2025 @02:52PM (#43119303)
But that's normal - emotionally boding with a farm animal you intend to slaughter and eat is indeed counterproductive.

The trope is about something different - it's about intentionally making a subject bond with an animal over long time, as with a close friend, and then finally making them kill the animal as a final test of loyalty.

Doing that in real life, and for no good reason, is just sick.

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Re:Egg Prices Are Soaring. Are Backyard Chickens the Answer? by 0x457 on Thursday February 20, 2025 @03:36PM (#43119824)
It is, those people think this practice will speed up process of that bond being understood as counterproductive.
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