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Jul. 17th, 2012 11:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alex_antoninI have a confession to make: I sometimes take the extreme opposing view because I get in moods where I just want someone else to be as angry as I am. Like rats, for instance. I generally don't like them, but I do know they aren't inherently dirty creatures. I just liked fighting with the rat-lovers about it because it sounded like a good idea at the time.
Now mind you, I still don't like rats. I just don't. But I don't like dogs, either. Stupid, noisy, annoying creatures, at least as bad as humans. Kind of a shame, really, seeing as they're basically just mutated wolves that humans have been fucking with. Yup: wolves, dogs, coyotes, dingoes... science counts them as distinct species, but truthfully they're all the same species, because they can interbreed and create viable young. IE, they can mate and produce young that can also mate with the parent species. So in truth, they're just extremely different breeds of the same species, no matter what the scientists say.
Dogs are basically in a semi-permanent state of adolescence. To a wolf, an adult dog looks like an adolescent wolf. (Or, with some breeds, like a tribble.) Now the same kind of thing has happened to humans... human adults look like furless, bigger-brained versions of the adolescents of ape species like chimps. Except the main difference is, humans have become permanently domesticated by millions of years of using fire and tools. It's in our DNA now. We are not the same species as chimps, not by a long shot. But dogs, they could turn back into wolves in a few dozen generations in the wild, because dogs were little more than tame wolves up until a couple thousand years ago at most, when dog breeding started to make really strange breeds. And most of those breeds are less than 1000 years old.
Anyway... so I don't like dogs. They bark at me all the time. I am constantly wishing they would either shut up or drop dead. Sometimes I bark back, or growl back. But they're still innocents, so I would never actually hurt one. In all my life, I have never hurt a dog. I came very close, once, when someone's dog destroyed a valued possession. I kicked out at it, but it didn't connect. Dogs are extremely annoying, and I often say I hate them, but I don't really. I just can't tolerate most dogs. (I have been known to tolerate some of them, though.)
I'm the same way with rats. I don't like them. But if they're someone's pet, I won't bother them.
But I will say this: don't go around thinking I'm a troll, or that I disagree just to be disagreeable. All my professed beliefs are at least based on my real feelings. I really don't like rats, I'm just not as vehement about it as I let on. And I don't like Christianity, but I do like Jesus's teachings, and I have met decent Christians. Hell, I used to date a Christopagan. So while I don't like Christianity in general, I don't hate it as much as it may seem I do. I just like, sometimes, to take the most extreme end of my side and be as offensive as possible on my blog.
And here I should lay down another point of clarification: I don't generally take any of this off of my blog. I just put it on my blog, in my own personal space, on the principle that if you don't want to read it, nobody is forcing you to. So if you choose to be offended, you have only yourself to blame for coming here and reading it and choosing to be offended.
Now mind you, I still don't like rats. I just don't. But I don't like dogs, either. Stupid, noisy, annoying creatures, at least as bad as humans. Kind of a shame, really, seeing as they're basically just mutated wolves that humans have been fucking with. Yup: wolves, dogs, coyotes, dingoes... science counts them as distinct species, but truthfully they're all the same species, because they can interbreed and create viable young. IE, they can mate and produce young that can also mate with the parent species. So in truth, they're just extremely different breeds of the same species, no matter what the scientists say.
Dogs are basically in a semi-permanent state of adolescence. To a wolf, an adult dog looks like an adolescent wolf. (Or, with some breeds, like a tribble.) Now the same kind of thing has happened to humans... human adults look like furless, bigger-brained versions of the adolescents of ape species like chimps. Except the main difference is, humans have become permanently domesticated by millions of years of using fire and tools. It's in our DNA now. We are not the same species as chimps, not by a long shot. But dogs, they could turn back into wolves in a few dozen generations in the wild, because dogs were little more than tame wolves up until a couple thousand years ago at most, when dog breeding started to make really strange breeds. And most of those breeds are less than 1000 years old.
Anyway... so I don't like dogs. They bark at me all the time. I am constantly wishing they would either shut up or drop dead. Sometimes I bark back, or growl back. But they're still innocents, so I would never actually hurt one. In all my life, I have never hurt a dog. I came very close, once, when someone's dog destroyed a valued possession. I kicked out at it, but it didn't connect. Dogs are extremely annoying, and I often say I hate them, but I don't really. I just can't tolerate most dogs. (I have been known to tolerate some of them, though.)
I'm the same way with rats. I don't like them. But if they're someone's pet, I won't bother them.
But I will say this: don't go around thinking I'm a troll, or that I disagree just to be disagreeable. All my professed beliefs are at least based on my real feelings. I really don't like rats, I'm just not as vehement about it as I let on. And I don't like Christianity, but I do like Jesus's teachings, and I have met decent Christians. Hell, I used to date a Christopagan. So while I don't like Christianity in general, I don't hate it as much as it may seem I do. I just like, sometimes, to take the most extreme end of my side and be as offensive as possible on my blog.
And here I should lay down another point of clarification: I don't generally take any of this off of my blog. I just put it on my blog, in my own personal space, on the principle that if you don't want to read it, nobody is forcing you to. So if you choose to be offended, you have only yourself to blame for coming here and reading it and choosing to be offended.