No I’m not a fascist (at least I hope not…)

I’m trying to understand why we’ve normalised the idea of eugenics in dogs (e.g. golden retrievers are friendly and smart, chihuahas are aggressive, etc.)¹ but find the idea of racial classification in humans abhorrent.

I can sort of see it from the idea that Nurture (culture and upbringing) would have a greater effect on a human’s characteristics than Nature would.

At the same time, my family tree has many twins and I’ve noticed that the identical ones have similar outcomes in life, whereas the fraternal ones (even the ones that look very similar) don’t really (N=3).

Maybe dog culture is not a thing, and that’s why people are happy to make these sweeping generalizations on dog characterics?

I’m lost a little

1: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/df/74/f7/df74f716c3a70f59aeb468152e4be927.png

  • MotoAsh@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Well, GOOD pet owners realize the typical pet treatment is still being a bit of a dick.

    Bad ones do just what you say and worse. Even to humans. The best example of misguided cruelty is when loved ones keep someone alive with a terminal illness. Many of them want to go long before family members want to let go.

    Hisashi Ouchi was kept alive for weeks while literally begging to be allowed to die. Humans are disgustingly cruel when it comes time to care about something with more than basic emotion.