Dogs should be Banned

[Dracoria]

Infected Mushrooms 2016: EVERYTHING I DON'T LIKE MUST BE BEANNED AND EVERYTHING SCARES ME SO WE'LL JUST BAN LIFE ALRIGHT!?

Except Canada possessing nuclear weapons. Those are alright.

Dogs aren't particularly dangerous. If a (domestic) dog is dangerous, you're doing something wrong.

Actually, I wonder what the OP's thoughts might be on the carolina dog, which is effectively America's "dingo." Most people didn't know about them until a few years ago, but it's gradually being more widely realized that the carolina dog is a true "pariah dog" that apparently came here with the Indians.

A pariah dog is, literally, a breed of dog that has a relationship with humans not too much unlike how cats used to be in Europe. That is, they are essentially a wild animal, with the primary social interaction between them and humans being having various things thrown at them (rocks, shoes, bones, or whatever seems most appropriate at the time), but humans have been an essential part of their survival since neolithic times.

Now, the carolina dog is effectively a unique animal that has roamed the savannahs possibly for millennia. Now, does the OP think that we ought to go out into the woods and hunt down all of the carolina dogs? Should they, as essentially wild animals, be subject to leash laws?

Carolina Dogs are in the US where we love dogs. Some syrup-drinking Canadian threatening to ban canines has no effect on them.

How could it get worse? Ban plantlife?

You just wait. You just wait.

I wouldn't be surprised in a "ban food" thread at this point.

Ban Dihydrogen Monoxide instead. Keep chemicals out of our children.

[Sun Wukong]

You only increase that chance by running.

This is veering dangerously close to victim blaming...

Blame isn't really the right word. I wouldn't exactly be upset with you if you got yourself mauled by a dog through ineptitude. Or at anyone really. Or at all.

[Wisconsin9]

You only increase that chance by running.

This is veering dangerously close to victim blaming...

If you ran away from the dog then you actually are at least partially to blame.

[Scomagia]

You only increase that chance by running.

This is veering dangerously close to victim blaming...

If you run from a dog you're provoking an attack and it is your fault. Learn2animals.

[Marcurix]

You only increase that chance by running.

This is veering dangerously close to victim blaming...

Yea, no. Literally the first thing in terms of safety when confronted by carnivorous animals is don't run. That's not victim blaming, that's don't make a bad situation worse.

[Sun Wukong]

While we're at it, ban cars. Much more dangerous.

I'd say switch to bicycles but... yep, more dangerous too.

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No dog = no possibility of dog bites. It doesn't get better.

Can't argue with that logic.



Sweet dreams, Kefka.

[United States of The One Percent]

Dogs rule. Humans should be banned. Arf.

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Dogs rule. Humans should be banned. Arf.

Going to add this to my sig under wisdom before I am inevitably warned for providing the OP with (adorable) nightmare fuel.

[Reath]

This may be satire...
But it could just as easily be honest.

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I reserve my opinion until I'm sure I wouldn't make a fool of myself for treating this seriously.

[Tekania]

Dogs are a special category. They can and often do bite people and so are a serious threat... Its a scientific fact that dogs can and do kill/injure people... Its a scientific fact that dogs... make our streets unsanitary with their droppings.

It's a scientific fact that the odds of being killed by a dog are 1 in 144,899, but you don't seem to care about that. And you should be blaming owners who don't pick up after their dogs for the shit, not the dogs. My dog crapped in public places twice today and it isn't lying around because I got rid of it.

Current odds put that figure at about 1:130,000..... not that that makes much difference.... one has a higher likelihood of dying by legal execution, effects of a cataclysmic storm or in a space transport accident.

[Looriro]

I have to point this out: you said "ban dogs," but never once specified banned owning them, or restricted to what location. What you're saying is, in essence, dogs should be banned from existing everywhere, meaning you think we should eradicate all species of canine from the universe.

[Alizina]

Not all dogs are vicious bastards, maybe we should ban knives, scissors, cars, and heavy objects, they all have the potential to be used as a murder weapon, along with killing people in an accident.

[Bojikami]

This may be satire...
But it could just as easily be honest.

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I reserve my opinion until I'm sure I wouldn't make a fool of myself for treating this seriously.

Oh, he is 100% serious.

[Sun Wukong]

This may be satire...
But it could just as easily be honest.

...

I reserve my opinion until I'm sure I wouldn't make a fool of myself for treating this seriously.

The most generous I can be is to suggest that this is a really bad attempt at satirizing gun control laws.

[Scomagia]

This may be satire...
But it could just as easily be honest.

...

I reserve my opinion until I'm sure I wouldn't make a fool of myself for treating this seriously.

He's completely serious.

[Cyrisnia]

This may be satire...
But it could just as easily be honest.

...

I reserve my opinion until I'm sure I wouldn't make a fool of myself for treating this seriously.

He's completely serious.

^^

[The Scandinvans]

I profoundly oppose any attempts to ban dogs and personally believe that despite the number of dog attacks each the overall benefit they give to humans exponentially outweighs any harm that dogs might do.

[Ehioreniohehsu]

Excuse me what?

[Destiny Island]

You only increase that chance by running.

This is veering dangerously close to victim blaming...

OOOOOOOOOOMG Seriously is this poe's law in action or did they just seriously play the victim card?

[The Floating Island of the Sleeping God]

We still playing the "gun control satire" game? Okay, sure. Dogs have a use to society, they can be used in hunting, by the police, or in the military. Uh, let's see...if dogs are outlawed, only outlaws will have dogs, and there won't be any good guys with dogs to stop them!

[Scomagia]

We still playing the "gun control satire" game? Okay, sure. Dogs have a use to society, they can be used in hunting, by the police, or in the military. Uh, let's see...if dogs are outlawed, only outlaws will have dogs, and there won't be any good guys with dogs to stop them!

It's cute that you think this is satire.

[Wisconsin9]

We still playing the "gun control satire" game? Okay, sure. Dogs have a use to society, they can be used in hunting, by the police, or in the military. Uh, let's see...if dogs are outlawed, only outlaws will have dogs, and there won't be any good guys with dogs to stop them!

And there are proven physical and psychological health benefits to dog ownership, not to mention guide and rescue dogs.

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You only increase that chance by running.

This is veering dangerously close to victim blaming...

Normally I'm opposed to victim-blaming but I can't get too passionate about the rights of someone who basically wants a puppy holocaust which is objectively the saddest thing ever.

[Salus Maior]

Then ban Cats too, cats attack people. Heck, ban animals altogether.