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  • bobzer@lemmy.zipto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneRule
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    15 days ago

    I know the anger and denial is just your defense mechanism against acknowledging that you’re in the wrong here.

    Hopefully you’ll get past it and start taking responsibility one day. I just hope your realization doesn’t come at the cost of a child’s eyesight. Peace mate.


  • bobzer@lemmy.zipto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneRule
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    16 days ago

    The BES article you linked is more about conservation law than actual impacts and the studies it uses as example are primarily from places like north America and Australia where cats are invasive.

    Right… Well when you get a chance to actually read the article rather than pretend you did, let me know…

    And so do foxes and birds and rats and voles and every other kind of animal that passes through your garden.

    And these don’t get canned food when prey animals have been over hunted. So they’ll starve and their population will be balanced against their prey. I’m starting to think I gave you too much credit saying you understood this issue…

    they kill animals to talking about killing animals yourself

    I’m interested in protecting biodiversity, sometimes that involves killing… Or you know… simply supervising your pets when they’re outside. But clearly you don’t have the capacity for responsibility.

    Cool and I was attacked by a dog that came off its lead as a kid. But if I tried to tell you that people shouldn’t take there dogs for a walk, even on a lead and you were a selfish person that doesn’t give a shit about other people because you take your dog on walks, you would just (rightly) think I’m crazy.

    You’re comparing someone who tried and failed to control their animal. Which is bad. To yourself, who refuses to control their animal, which is easily 100x worse.

    but we still let them play outside, because keeping them inside their entire lives would be incredibly cruel.

    How fulfilling do you think the lives of all the birds precious Mittens has killed have been?

    I’m not the one making threats of violence over the internet.

    You’re the one actually committing violence by releasing a violent predator unsupervised. How do you know it hasn’t attacked a child?

    Also you literally started this with petty name calling, so it’s pretty rich of you to start clutching your pearls now lil guy.

    I know you’re very worked up right now. But take a breathe and try to calm down.



  • bobzer@lemmy.ziptoMemes@lemmy.mlLemmy liberals:
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    16 days ago

    using anecdotes

    I lived in China mate.

    It felt like living anywhere else. I saw poverty daily but I lived a good life with other middle class people. People love their families, pray for more money and love a good drink. They praise the government when a new train station is built, but everyone in my district wasn’t happy because we were below the river that the government had arbitrarily decided divided which buildings were given permits to be built with heating and which weren’t, so we froze in winter.

    I loved my electric scooter, I nearly died every day on the roads. The best meals I ever had were at the Buddhist temple where everything was vegetarian. You paid if you could so those who couldn’t could have a free meal.

    I’ve also never seen so many elderly people forced to work to avoid hunger and homelessness. From the bicycle parking attendants to the elderly couple who lived in a partition in my buildings garage.

    Every country has lifted people out of poverty over the last 100 years. Do you really think Chinese people don’t pay for their houses?

    Don’t confuse my criticism of China with an endorsement of America or capitalism. Just a counterbalance to the delusion I see in these threads.