heihachi

i actually sort of disagree with myself being so black and white about that having read it back, cause i do think smart animals like dogs have some moral instincts

but while they have some abstractive ability to understand fairness or whatever it's not on the same level as humans, and trying to imprint human morality on them is silly

e- please no-one try to engage me on the topic of free will, i don't want to play

moralising dogs is silly. they have no higher order thinking

but the idea that any violence committed by an animal is necessarily a failure on their owners part is also silly

animals can and do commit acts of violence without any prior warning. they could be scared or traumatised or misunderstanding something as an act of aggression. or they could just be angry

the idea that you can reliably train the possibility for unwanted violence out of every animal is hubris

the racism could definitely be one of the reasons it happened in the us but there are pit bull bans in a lot of countries where the dogs don't have strong cultural ties to minority groups.

is it not more likely that people assume they are dangerous because they were bred to fight? whether that is true or not it seems understandable.