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feralfantastic t1_j1assw3 wrote

Reply to comment by laffingriver in Injured Student Praises Teachers During Pit Bull Attack at Willard, Mo. School Playground by Realistic-Sun3480

Thanks for enumerating all the challenges to the process. Finding the answers might be difficult, but not impossible. I’d prefer to find these answers over having my children attacked in school because some shithead I’ve never met couldn’t manage their animal properly.

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laffingriver t1_j1aw9iw wrote

you are absolutely correct! its the shithead you never met thats the problem.

discussing these nuanced difficulties is how we come to an ethical consensus in a multiculural, diverse, and democratic society such as ours.

im glad we agree its the owners fault and their responsibility rather than something as arbitrary as “breed”.

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feralfantastic t1_j1b7t2d wrote

Except, of course, this is about culling dogs, and not people. The shithead is going to keep on being a shithead. The most you can do is make it illegal for them to own an animal that will react to their shithead qualities by getting angrier and crazier and more uncontrollable until they go out, independent of the shithead, and rip the faces off a bunch of toddlers.

Pit bulls are a uniquely fragile breed, apparently predisposed by fundamental behavior to attack children and other dogs. They’re apparently responsible for half fatal dog attacks despite representing no more than 6% of the dog population. We need to be phasing out any animal with salient evidence of pit characteristics for the same reason we don’t let felons own firearms, we put cancer warnings on cigarette packs, and we don’t allow private ownership of high explosives.

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