JickyJuly said:
Sevrin said:
Crumb said:
Sevrin said:
The person. The dog is just a fucking dog.
that fucking dog is a member of my fucking family.
random dog vs random stranger, sure, I'll pick the human, but not when I've raised, loved and cared for a family member.
But if it was your daughter vs your dog it would be a toss-up?
You went off the beaten path to get to that conclusion, didn't ya? *throws some bread crumbs in hopes you make it back*
Hand them out to whoever decided that this choice had to involve a family pet versus a random stranger.
People tend to associate dogs in general with *their* dog, In our daily lives, most of us don't deal with more than one or two dogs on a regular basis. Those tend to be pets that belong to our households and our associations are positive. Ergo: dogs are associated with positive thoughts.
With humans, it is a different story. We encounter shitloads of people daily in one manner or another. Our experiences with humans vary far more than they do with dogs. We have both good and bad experiences with people, and the bad ones can leave deep scars, resentment etc. We don't have the same assumption of warm and fuzziness we have with dogs.
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Anyway, that's why we associate "dog" with "my dog" and "human" with "random human". The result of the survey was skewed toward the fucking dogs to begin with.