The Child-Like Role of Dogs in Western Societies

Re:The Child-Like Role of Dogs in Western Societies by absurdo on Monday June 09, 2025 @11:29AM (#44225498)

I avoided going into all the myriad of things that pets are good for because it’s not the point. I grew up with a small backyard graveyard of all the pets I’ve had over the years, some given some adopted some stray, so I’m very far from anti-pet.

What I’m really poking at here in the joke behind the rant sort of way is a suspicion, a conspiracy by nature to suppress our reproduction capabilities by slowly not only making us infertile in greater numbers, but steering us towards adopting pets instead of humans as a prank, to make us see the animals we are in an animal kingdom.

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Re:The Child-Like Role of Dogs in Western Societies by iugtmkbdfil834 on Monday June 09, 2025 @11:36AM (#44225562)

Interesting, I will admit that I missed that interpretation, but the coffee still didn't kick in yet. In that sense, it would be an interesting expansion on the jokes of Carlin ( how would planet deal with such unhealthy surface nuissance? ). I did internally chuckle so thank you for this morning smile.

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