Current Events > Most people are broken and use animals as a crutch.

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We've all heard phrases like the following:

"No animal has ever hurt me."

"It's like... animals just understand me!"

"My pets are better than most humans I know."

These are cries for help. People need to treat their emotional baggage in a healthy way. If you or somebody you know talks like this, it's time to start investigating why.

Can you, just one fucking time, post something worth reading?

JlM posted...

Can you, just one fucking time, post something worth reading?

Do you say the phrases in the OP?

https://youtu.be/GJ2MXnh_2Tk

This thread is now an animal appreciation thread.

I love my dog.

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This is my cow. He is a spiral.

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That's my cat. She's addicted to me. She gets sad and anxious when I'm not around. When she has lost sight of me in the house, she calls for me. Once I've said a sound, she immediately rushes to meet me. She always follows me around. She spends the majority of her life in close proximity to me. She's sleeping on my lap right now.

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Animals like dogs love you unconditionally. People just want to feel loved.

KingWhiteKnight posted...

Animals like dogs love you unconditionally. People just want to feel loved.

Not true. If you treat your dog like shit, it won't love you. In other words, love is conditionnal. A racist or sexist dog may also hate you no matter what because of your race or sex. My mother's bitch hates me even though I've never been bad to her. She hates all men. She was tortured in Spain by men where animal rights are nonexistent. She still has scars from the knife wounds she received.

One of my sister's many bitches (she doesn't currently own a male dog) is racist toward Spanish breeds because she was forced to live with thousands of other dogs in a concentration camp in Spain. She's basically racist toward her own race. She's intolerant of the other Spanish bitches in her new home, but she doesn't mind the Australian Shepherd and the Chihuahua. If a Spanish dog approaches her food or gets too close to her while she's trying to sleep, she growls. If it's a non Spanish breed, she doesn't care.

KingWhiteKnight posted...

Animals like dogs love you unconditionally. People just want to feel loved.

Here's a reminder that in Fallout 4, one of your companions is your maid robot that's gone crazy after spending 210 years cleaning the same broken radioactive house and will judge your worth as a human being based on how often you often you take drugs versus how often you slap a scope on a pipe pistol.

Then the other companion is an actual dog, who still stare lovingly into your eyes after you beat him upside the head with a pipe wrench for the 50th time.

Accrovideogames posted...

Not true. If you treat your dog like shit, it won't love you. In other words, love is conditionnal. A racist or sexist dog may also hate you no matter what because of your race or sex. My mother's bitch hates me even though I've never been bad to her. She hates all men. She was tortured in Spain by men where animal rights are nonexistent. She still has scars from the knife wounds she received.

One of my sister's many bitches (she doesn't currently own a male dog) is racist toward Spanish breeds because she was forced to live with thousands of other dogs in a concentration camp in Spain. She's basically racist toward her own race. She's intolerant of the other Spanish bitches in her new home, but she doesn't mind the Australian Shepherd and the Chihuahua. If a Spanish dog approaches her food or gets too close to her while she's trying to sleep, she growls. If it's a non Spanish breed, she doesn't care.

You literally only need to feed a dog for it to love you. It's much harder to get a human to love you the same way a dog does.

KingWhiteKnight posted...

You literally only need to feed a dog for it to love you. It's much harder to get a human to love you the same way a dog does.

I've fed my mother's bitch on more than one occasion and she still hates me. My mother and sister never fed my cat. Despite this, she still loves them (obviously not as much as me). I've never fed my sister's bitches and some of them still love me (the others are indifferent). Heck, my sister used to have a dog (yay, male) who loved me at first sight and I was pretty open about how much I hated him. She got rid of him because he was dangerous for kids (unpredictable and prone to biting due to trauma) and she was planning on being a mother. The dog was sexist but in the form of positive discrimination. He prefers men for some reason. Luckily for him, he was readopted by a gay couple.

JlM posted...

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This is my cow. He is a spiral.

Cow spiral best cat

Cats teach consent. If they don't want you to pet them they won't let you. That's part of why I love them so much, because they know their wants and needs and vocalize it.

I love cats.

Topic title doesn't match op. Most people don't say those things.

Oh you mean emotional/anxiety companions?

Yeah fuck that, dont be bringing your pig on a fuckin plane cause it makes you feel better

sociopath topic

Imagine trying to use a dog as a literal crutch. That would be so awkward

These topics are a cry for help.

Disconnection.

Many find ways to reconnect to anything really to find humanity within ourselves after being neglected, used, & numb to social and emotional interactions in our lives. Probably maybe...

Yeah. I hate those people. I only get animals that consistently bite me and shit on my bed like Amber Heard. So, that way Im 100% sure I'll never become one of them.

SrRd_RacinG posted...

We've all heard phrases like the following:

"No animal has ever hurt me."

"It's like... animals just understand me!"

"My pets are better than most humans I know."

These are cries for help. People need to treat their emotional baggage in a healthy way. If you or somebody you know talks like this, it's time to start investigating why.

I honestly cant tell if this topic is genuine or not but I actually agree with what youre saying.

I guess Im the weird one because Ive never had that connection with animals, but, like, I just dont get it.

You can't really be an animal lover if you pay to eat meat.

Xenozoa425 posted...

You can't really be an animal lover if you pay to eat meat.

I love my dog, and I also love the taste of cows, chickens, turkeys, and pigs.

So you don't really love animals then, you just like pets and companions.

Xenozoa425 posted...

So you don't really love animals then, you just like pets and companions.

I love animals, but I also love eating animals.

rexcrk posted...

I honestly cant tell if this topic is genuine or not but I actually agree with what youre saying.

I guess Im the weird one because Ive never had that connection with animals, but, like, I just dont get it.

I'm being pretty damn serious. A lot of folks got tons of suffering and they try to cope with it through animals.

Xenozoa425 posted...

So you don't really love animals then, you just like pets and companions.

Do you love every single animal on the planet?

I dont have a pet or a plant.

Slayer_22 posted...

I love animals, but I also love eating animals.

Isn't that paradoxical?

How can you claim love them as family or friends on one hand, but on the other you contribute to their exploitation and suffering for something as simply mere and fleeting as taste?

Accrovideogames posted...

Do you love every single animal on the planet?

Out of respect for their consciousness and autonomy as sentient beings? Enough to where I feel morally and ethically obligated to choose not to eat, wear, or otherwise contribute financially to their exploitation as minimally as possible in my life where it is practical to do so.

Xenozoa425 posted...

You can't really be an animal lover if you pay to eat meat.

So if I do it for free I can still love animals?

Xenozoa425 posted...

You can't really be an animal lover if you pay to eat meat.

Factually untrue.

DrizztLink posted...

So if I do it for free I can still love animals?

Whoosh.

Vyrulisse posted...

Factually untrue.

It's essentially speciesism, a glorified superiority complex.

Lost_All_Senses posted...

Yeah. I hate those people. I only get animals that consistently bite me and shit on my bed like Amber Heard. So, that way Im 100% sure I'll never become one of them.

At least house train it so it dont shit in your bed

Xenozoa425 posted...

Whoosh.

You're the one who made the statement, ain't my fault it's ambiguous.

My tactic of stealing bacon from Wal-Mart makes me ethically in the clear.

It's not ambiguous at all, you understand the context of what I stated clearly enough to joke about it in a way you think is clever.

Xenozoa425 posted...

Isn't that paradoxical?

How can you claim love them as family or friends on one hand, but on the other you contribute to their exploitation and suffering for something as simply mere and fleeting as taste?

I never said I love them as family and friends. Who tf said that? You can love something as one would love the taste of food. I love animals in the same way I love my dog. Their existence, in most cases, brings me joy. I love animal meat as a taste. I love dogs on the street that let me pet them, same with cats. I love my own animals.

Awful, awful logic in display here.

Xenozoa425 posted...

Out of respect for their consciousness and autonomy as sentient beings? Enough to where I feel morally and ethically obligated to choose not to eat, wear, or otherwise contribute financially to their exploitation as minimally as possible in my life where it is practical to do so.

Okay, but have you ever hated an animal?

Slayer_22 posted...

I never said I love them as family and friends. Who tf said that? You can love something as one would love the taste of food. I love animals in the same way I love my dog. Their existence, in most cases, brings me joy. I love animal meat as a taste. I love dogs on the street that let me pet them, same with cats. I love my own animals.

Awful, awful logic in display here.

It's not bad logic, it's pointing out inconsistency in a person's sense of morality. The dog brings you happiness but does not have to suffer or feel pain to do so, while the animals you eat were bred into existence and forced to suffer and die in order to be useful to you. That's textbook arrogance.

Xenozoa425 posted...

You can't really be an animal lover if you pay to eat meat.

This may be the dumbest thing I read all week

No one:
Still no one:
Absolutely no one ever:
Not a single fucking soul:
SrRd_RacinG: "Most people are broken and use animals as a crutch."

Xenozoa425 posted...

Out of respect for their consciousness and autonomy as sentient beings? Enough to where I feel morally and ethically obligated to choose not to eat, wear, or otherwise contribute financially to their exploitation as minimally as possible in my life where it is practical to do so.

You could have just said "no" like a normal person instead of giving an answer more befitting of a politician.

Xenozoa425 posted...

You can't really be an animal lover if you pay to eat meat.

I work at an animal sanctuary/rescue and we rehabilitate wildlife. I have 4 dogs, a cat and a hedgehog. I like meat, but I dont often go out of my way to eat it. I donated money to animal organizations. I do feel bad for the cows, pigs and chickens. I still eat meat and sometimes impossible meat. Am I not an animal lover?

Xenozoa425 posted...

It's not bad logic, it's pointing out inconsistency in a person's sense of morality. The dog brings you happiness but does not have to suffer or feel pain to do so, while the animals you eat were bred into existence and forced to suffer and die in order to be useful to you. That's textbook arrogance.

I mean, I can enjoy petting a cow and enjoy eating a cow. They're two separate events that you seem to think gets nullified by the other. I love cows as animals, and I love the sustenance they provide to myself as well.

shut up racing guy

Accrovideogames posted...

Okay, but have you ever hated an animal?

Not really, but I used to fear certain ones because my own lack of wisdom, knowledge and experience with them created negative feelings of animosity, and thus I projected my insecurities onto them.

Takes bees for example. Bees used to make me extremely uncomfortable if they fly by me, and I'd flail my arms around in order to avoid them. I was mowing grass once outside my house and accidentally went a bit too close to their hive, so they swarmed and attacked me, and I hated bees for many years. Because of that, I used to think "bees are bad because they will sting me", but in reality that's not true at all. They are super important for their role to the world in pollinating plants. They couldn't give a single care in the world about you, unless you do something to provoke them. Now I understand bees and I'm not afraid of them, and love them for what they do and respect their role and their intelligence and autonomy. If I see or hear a bee, I don't get startled or surprised anymore.

6cc posted...

This may be the dumbest thing I read all week

Dumb enough to get several people ITT engaged into giving me a different answer or excuse?

Maybe so. Either way, my goal is to plant seeds into people's minds.

Paragon21XX posted...

No one:
Still no one:
Absolutely no one ever:
Not a single fucking soul:
SrRd_RacinG: "Most people are broken and use animals as a crutch."

You could have just said "no" like a normal person instead of giving an answer more befitting of a politician.

I'm just over here pointing out the speciesism and seeing if people's actions align fully with their morals and values.

FarmDog posted...

I work at an animal sanctuary/rescue and we rehabilitate wildlife. I have 4 dogs, a cat and a hedgehog. I like meat, but I dont often go out of my way to eat it. I donated money to animal organizations. I do feel bad for the cows, pigs and chickens. I still eat meat and sometimes impossible meat. Am I not an animal lover?

You're a very good person, and I don't doubt that for a single minute. I applaud your selflessness and ambition to do good for others, and I wish more people were like you. But your actions don't 100% fully align with your morals, views and thoughts. Whether you are aware of it or not, however, you still happen to be contributing to the exploitation and suffering of beings, that is wholly unnecessary in the civilized and technologically capable society that we live in today. Somewhere deep in your brain, you still have the imaginary barricade set up that was elaborately placed there as you grew up, the one that separates the animal kingdom into two distinct groups: ones that are more important, and ones that are less important.

Slayer_22 posted...

I mean, I can enjoy petting a cow and enjoy eating a cow. They're two separate events that you seem to think gets nullified by the other. I love cows as animals, and I love the sustenance they provide to myself as well.

They don't provide you with that sustenance, though. They are non consenting beings that are forced into their position. They didn't choose to be where they are. They don't willingly give up their life for you. You have to artificially impregnate them and/or take their life in order to get what you want, or by virtue of supply and demand, you have to pay someone else to do it for you. There's an aggressor and a victim, and that's called exploitation, and it's cruel and unnecessary.

Xenozoa425 posted...

I'm just over here pointing out the speciesism and seeing if people's actions align fully with their morals and values.

PETA-style response. You a member of PETA?

Xenozoa425 posted...

You're a very good person, and I don't doubt that for a single minute. I applaud your selflessness and ambition to do good for others, and I wish more people were like you. But your actions don't 100% fully align with your morals, views and thoughts. Whether you are aware of it or not, however, you still happen to be contributing to the exploitation and suffering of beings, that is wholly unnecessary in the civilized and technologically capable society that we live in today. Somewhere deep in your brain, you still have the imaginary barricade set up that was elaborately placed there as you grew up, the one that separates the animal kingdom into two distinct groups: ones that are more important, and ones that are less important.

What I think youre trying to say is that there are different categories for the term animal lover. Youre saying I dont fall under the 100% true animal lover category because Im not a vegetarian? What am I a 99% animal lover?

Stuff like this can be said about a lot of things. 100% true this, 100% true that.