Guy I know once talked about reading dog-breeder subreddits to learn about applied eugenics because there's no stigma in those circles and they're results oriented. They just use their own language that dodges the taboos. Much interesting stuff going on. Talk about things like how behavioural problems rooted in experiences still are undesirable in breeding stocks and have consequences. Obviously the moment one takes observations of dogs and starts wondering about people the connections and parallels and conclusions are simply not allowed to be voiced.
You can see the same problems in how humanity treats humanity playing out in the dog world. First, the most general problem of why we even have dogs. The average dog's existence is utterly depressing. Totally uprooted from what the animal is built for. Horribly selfish human centric existence. And the human owner also has a depressing pointless existence divorced from purpose. A dog's life is spiritual mutilation to enable the further spiritual mutilation of even higher beings.
Second thing, subject of this thread, and related to the above point, our civilisation has a deep-rooted aversion to the idea that anything is innately bad or should not exist. Everything will have
a place, no matter how degenerate or dysfunctional. Libtards don't even really want Nazis dead. They would prefer them lobotomised and sitting in cages for decades on end.
There's obviously no good reason to keep a pitbull alive. But we don't just do so. Many people claim to love them. There can be different drives behind this. I think women feeling like saviours and enjoying flirting with danger is a valid explanation. As is trash people liking the
hard dog. Getting caught on particulars I don't think is important. What's important is that there is no good reason. I'll leave this point off with the classic:
Look at some pictures of #1 on the fatality list. The pitbull. Then look at some pictures of #3. The German Shepherd.
I think Mikka put it best that Pits and Pit-like breeds look like if they could talk, they would say "mate, mate, mate". By contrast, the German Shepherd looks intelligent enough to understand and pity the plight of the former.
German Shepherds
can be dangerous. More so than most dogs.
But, there are intelligent and coherent arguments that can be made for keeping them around despite that. They have positive value, and their danger is even intrinsically tied to this value. The German Shepherd is intelligent, strong, and large. It can be put to more and better real work which satisfies both humanity and the dog than most other breeds. The traits which serve it so well in these things
do also make it a potential hazard to humanity. If its superior intelligence (which is so nice for police-work) is led to neurosis, a panicking dog of this size, with such an impressive wolf-like build (great for non-fatally mauling criminals), can be a danger to human lives.
The pitbull question leads to the more general question of what the value of dogs is. And from there we obviously go to the question of what the value of people is. If we can draw distinctions within the world of dogs...