Most of the time when people say they have an unpopular opinion, it turns out it’s actually pretty popular.

Do you have some that’s really unpopular and most likely will get you downvoted?

  • jsveiga
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    781 year ago

    Dogs were hardwired by selective breeding to worship their owners. Not long ago they at least were loyal companions. You got one off the streets, fed it leftovers, washed it with a hose, it lived in the yard, and it was VERY happy and proud of doing its job. Some breeds now were bred into painful disabling deformities just to look “cute”, and they became hysterical neurotic yapping fashion accessories. Useless high maintenance toys people store in small cages (“oh, but my child loves his cage”) when they don’t need hardwired unconditional lopsided “love” to feed their narcissism.

    • @fubo@lemmy.world
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      111 year ago

      Lapdogs have been around for thousands of years. It’s only very recently that they’ve been bred so extremely that they can’t breathe.

      • jsveiga
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        71 year ago

        Thousands of years ago they were dogs, not fashion accessories.

          • jsveiga
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            1 year ago

            Yes, I’m pretty sure they were still dogs. No crippling deformities.

            (edit: but if you need to filter “anecdotal” evidence, just add “in the western world, in modern history”?)

    • ColorcodedResistor
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      41 year ago

      eugenics is fine in the public eye, plants, animals. humans too, but the human eugenics have to be kept a poor secret, because, you know. ethics. 🤷

      • jsveiga
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        11 year ago

        Haha, I guess many dog owners just can’t see it how it is; probably an addiction to the lopsided unconditional “love”. I used to comment something similar back in Reddit, just to see the flood of downvotes and outraged dog owners.

        Same reaction to supporting the idea that some breeds are generally more dangerous and/or more aggressive. “Oh, my MY pitbull is a sweetie!!” (adding this here just to test :D )

    • @socsa@lemmy.ml
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      21 year ago

      I do agree that the caging trend is fucking awful. I have friends who leave their two large dogs caged for 8 hours a day and it crushes me. These are both well behaved dogs who wouldn’t make a mess out of a cage so I really just don’t get the point, other than it’s millennial meta to do cage training.

      • jsveiga
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        31 year ago

        Yes, and I heard as a response “but he LOVES the cage”. Really? Why does it need a door with a latch then?