Another cultural/lifestyle rant that is probably going to piss people off
Okay, time for a follow up rant. I don't understand why dogs are sometimes loved and valued even more than humans. Though the only people who would openly admit to it are misanthropic, vegan leftists who support the VHEMT, but most dog lovers also fall into this category. Here are some points to consider:
* People get offended by violence towards dogs even more so than violence towards humans. For example, Nintendo had to force ID Software to replace the Nazi guard dogs with rats in the SNES version of Wolfenstein 3D. There's other media that had similar censorship but I can't think of any off the top of my head.
* Some of the most tear-jerking books and films involve dogs dying. People die all the time in books and films but dog deaths always get people more for whatever reason.
* You see more commercials and advertisements from non-profits asking to donate to help stray dogs or adopt animals from an animal shelter than you see commercials asking the same for orphaned, human children. It seems like people would rather help stray dogs than human children who have no parents.
* Dog fighting is illegal in most places, but boxing is not.
re: Another cultural/lifestyle rant that is probably going to piss people off
It's really not that complicated.
Although I think the last point about boxing is kind of a false equivalency. There's a big difference between drugging/abusing another creature into violently fighting another one, potentially to the death, with the threat of starvation and or death if they don't do it; and two professional athletes mutually consenting to fight each other for money.