I don’t like comparing animals to humans, domestic animals have been selectively bread for centuries for various traits, both physical and psychological.
The history of pitbulls traces back to Joseph L. Colby, a professional dog fighter. They would selectively breed the most vicious and game dogs. Game meant that they would keep on fighting even with serious injuries.
Here is a book from Colby about breeding and fighting pitbulls (serious CW: animal abuse)
When dog fighting was beginning to be outlawed, that’s when pitbulls started to be promoted as family pets. The curret advocacy for pitbulls is some multi million dollar industry ran by former Scientologist members, who don’t even own pitbulls themselves.
I will agree that pitbulls are a class issue, shelters are full of pitbulls, and dogs from breeders are expensive. Not every pitbull will snap, but there are so many stories about vicious dog attacks, that leaves horrible injuries, mostly to children and elderly. The statistics shows that they are mostly pitbulls or pitbull mix. There are certainly other vicious breeds out there, like Dogo Argentinos, but these are rare and expensive so they aren’t very prevalent.
I don’t like comparing animals to humans, domestic animals have been selectively bread for centuries for various traits, both physical and psychological.
Also people have the ability to think and learn that is for all intents and purposes an evolutionary glitch and imho places humas in a totally distinct category from other animals, not on a biological level of course (universal common ancestor and all) but existential one. On a biological any comparisons or analogies between humans of any “race” and animals (say dog breeds) are from a total lack of understanding of biology and genetics. Selective breeding has pushed the phenotypic differences in the dog species to its absolute extremes. So these weird analogies are essentially people saying really stupid things because of completely baseless and unfounded belief. Or they just want to spread propaganda. The sad reality is most people do not have an adequate understanding of a lot of topics that they talk about.
I’ll edit this in but things like intelligence and personality are simply not based on genetics but consciousness, something we have basically no understanding of. Even neuroscience can somewhat explain the foundation on which consciousness sits but nothing more as of yet. It’s also why “AI” is a fucking joke. We are millenia away from actual AI
I don’t like comparing animals to humans, domestic animals have been selectively bread for centuries for various traits, both physical and psychological.
The history of pitbulls traces back to Joseph L. Colby, a professional dog fighter. They would selectively breed the most vicious and game dogs. Game meant that they would keep on fighting even with serious injuries.
Here is a book from Colby about breeding and fighting pitbulls (serious CW: animal abuse)
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.%24b28129&seq=1
When dog fighting was beginning to be outlawed, that’s when pitbulls started to be promoted as family pets. The curret advocacy for pitbulls is some multi million dollar industry ran by former Scientologist members, who don’t even own pitbulls themselves.
I will agree that pitbulls are a class issue, shelters are full of pitbulls, and dogs from breeders are expensive. Not every pitbull will snap, but there are so many stories about vicious dog attacks, that leaves horrible injuries, mostly to children and elderly. The statistics shows that they are mostly pitbulls or pitbull mix. There are certainly other vicious breeds out there, like Dogo Argentinos, but these are rare and expensive so they aren’t very prevalent.
Also people have the ability to think and learn that is for all intents and purposes an evolutionary glitch and imho places humas in a totally distinct category from other animals, not on a biological level of course (universal common ancestor and all) but existential one. On a biological any comparisons or analogies between humans of any “race” and animals (say dog breeds) are from a total lack of understanding of biology and genetics. Selective breeding has pushed the phenotypic differences in the dog species to its absolute extremes. So these weird analogies are essentially people saying really stupid things because of completely baseless and unfounded belief. Or they just want to spread propaganda. The sad reality is most people do not have an adequate understanding of a lot of topics that they talk about.
I’ll edit this in but things like intelligence and personality are simply not based on genetics but consciousness, something we have basically no understanding of. Even neuroscience can somewhat explain the foundation on which consciousness sits but nothing more as of yet. It’s also why “AI” is a fucking joke. We are millenia away from actual AI