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Abandoned dog (lemmy.world)

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[-] StopJoiningWars@discuss.online -5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Replace "master", which is creepy and subservient, with "friend".

[-] blind3rdeye@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

I agree that it is creepy and subservient... but it is also entirely accurate. The dog is a pet. It is entirely reliant on the owner, and it is only allowed to do what the owner lets it do. It eats when the owner tells it to. It goes outside only when the owner says so. It probably even had its genitals removed at the request of the owner.

So yeah, 'master' is an appropriate word here.

I find it a bit uncomfortable too, which is why I don't have a pet. But from what I can tell, dogs are generally fine with this arrangement. Most dogs seem to like it this way.

[-] cheddar@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago

Will do, master.

[+] Vespair@lemm.ee -41 points 2 months ago

Call me weird, but I will never understand the compulsion to imbue these barely sentient creatures with human-like sapience.

It is okay to love and appreciate your pet, but it is fucking weird to project human characteristics on them.

Your dog isn't thinking thoughts like this. Your dog can't think thoughts like this.

This is masturbatory, purely self-serving self-worship ascribed to an animal.

[-] oxideseven@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

What's with your dog/dog-parent hate? Just a vocal cat person, or...

[-] kwomp2@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

I see the comic as an attempt to translate the existential stress a dog "feels" to the human experience, especially it's intensity. Because even with no language, no consciousness as humans have it, dogs do experience intensity you could measure in cortisol levels, heartbeat, eye movement etc.

The comic is useful for those who are interested in translating that to human experience. A communicative form that works well is narrative framing. It gives your empathy a correspondant in your conscious thinking.

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