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Education is extremely important.
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If there's a huge gap between pits and other breeds in the statistics, then there's plenty of room to draw a line between them.
Okay then what it is it for you? Do you look only at fatal attacks or attacks more generally? And what would be your comfortable threshold?
I'm not making a point about asking those, I'm genuinely curious. (Pretty much the only point I'm making is that it's been difficult to find others who are willing to articulate this.)
Please love yourself.
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@Aqua-Letifer I don’t think there’s any value in codifying statistical thresholds and all that. After you notice pitbulls are outliers in the statistics, you name them in whatever controlling legislation. You never have to draw any lines other than the line around pit bulls. Of course in theory a line was crossed by pit bulls at some point, but you never need to be specific about where that line is. Maybe you’re arguing that it’s incoherent to believe a line has been crossed, unless you can define exactly where that line is. I would disagree with that.
Education is extremely important.
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Maybe you’re arguing that it’s incoherent to believe a line has been crossed, unless you can define exactly where that line is. I would disagree with that.
If someone's certain a line has been crossed, but can't explain even roughly what the line is or where it is, then yes, it's incoherent.
I don't expect people to be able to say, "okay, my line is 48 fatal attacks from 2005 to 2017 and if pit bulls had 47 then I'd not consider them a problem."
If someone who has a problem with the breed can say something like, "roughly, the rottweiler number I'm okay with but not the pitt bull number" or "roughly speaking I think pitt bulls and rottweilers are both dangerous because they're kind of outliers with fatal attacks," that at least suggests some understanding of their own threshold. But if someone can't articulate at all, even roughly, where that line is for them, but know for a fact pit bulls and only pit bulls crossed it, then the only coherent conclusion to draw is that they hate pit bulls because of t3h fere.
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@Aqua-Letifer said in So sweet:
If someone who has a problem with the breed can say something like, "roughly, the rottweiler number I'm okay with but not the pitt bull number" or "roughly speaking I think pitt bulls and rottweilers are both dangerous because they're kind of outliers with fatal attacks," that at least suggests some understanding of their own threshold. But if someone can't articulate at all, even roughly, where that line is for them, but know for a fact pit bulls and only pit bulls crossed it, then the only coherent conclusion to draw is that they hate pit bulls because of t3h fere.
Pit bulls are an order of magnitude more likely to kill than all other breeds except one. In engineering terms, that's like normal people saying 'Holy shit, that's fucked up'.
Proud supporter of Plan 2525. Everything you think, do and say will be in the pill you took today.
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@Doctor-Phibes said in So sweet:
@Aqua-Letifer said in So sweet:
If someone who has a problem with the breed can say something like, "roughly, the rottweiler number I'm okay with but not the pitt bull number" or "roughly speaking I think pitt bulls and rottweilers are both dangerous because they're kind of outliers with fatal attacks," that at least suggests some understanding of their own threshold. But if someone can't articulate at all, even roughly, where that line is for them, but know for a fact pit bulls and only pit bulls crossed it, then the only coherent conclusion to draw is that they hate pit bulls because of t3h fere.
Pit bulls are an order of magnitude more likely to kill than all other breeds except one. In engineering terms, that's like normal people saying 'Holy shit, that's fucked up'.
George shared the fatal attack data above. After I mentioned it.
I didn't say I was unaware of the stats or that I disagreed with them.
Please love yourself.
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@Aqua-Letifer said in So sweet:
George shared the fatal attack data above. After I mentioned it.
OK, sorry.
I was PWI. (Posting with Insomnia)
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@Aqua-Letifer said in So sweet:
So what's the acceptable number?
I vote 25 deaths should be the limit.
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I'm a dog lover, but I have to say I don't feel comfortable around either pit-bulls or rottweilers, which some people might say is my problem, but it really shouldn't be my problem.
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Rotties I am cautious with, but if I know and trust them, they are wonderful dogs. I’ve never seen good owners have a problem with Rottweilers. Pit bulls? I have seen great pet owners have a problem with a supposedly good pit bull.
We know quite a few dog trainers in Karla’s work. More than a few won’t work with Pit Bulls.
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@Aqua-Letifer said in So sweet:
Maybe you’re arguing that it’s incoherent to believe a line has been crossed, unless you can define exactly where that line is. I would disagree with that.
If someone's certain a line has been crossed, but can't explain even roughly what the line is or where it is, then yes, it's incoherent.
I don't expect people to be able to say, "okay, my line is 48 fatal attacks from 2005 to 2017 and if pit bulls had 47 then I'd not consider them a problem."
If someone who has a problem with the breed can say something like, "roughly, the rottweiler number I'm okay with but not the pitt bull number" or "roughly speaking I think pitt bulls and rottweilers are both dangerous because they're kind of outliers with fatal attacks," that at least suggests some understanding of their own threshold. But if someone can't articulate at all, even roughly, where that line is for them, but know for a fact pit bulls and only pit bulls crossed it, then the only coherent conclusion to draw is that they hate pit bulls because of t3h fere.
The distance in the statistics between put bulls and the #2 most dangerous breed, would qualify as a rough idea of where the line is. Somewhere in that gaping chasm between pit bulls and the next most dangerous breed.
Education is extremely important.
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@Aqua-Letifer said in So sweet:
Maybe you’re arguing that it’s incoherent to believe a line has been crossed, unless you can define exactly where that line is. I would disagree with that.
If someone's certain a line has been crossed, but can't explain even roughly what the line is or where it is, then yes, it's incoherent.
I don't expect people to be able to say, "okay, my line is 48 fatal attacks from 2005 to 2017 and if pit bulls had 47 then I'd not consider them a problem."
If someone who has a problem with the breed can say something like, "roughly, the rottweiler number I'm okay with but not the pitt bull number" or "roughly speaking I think pitt bulls and rottweilers are both dangerous because they're kind of outliers with fatal attacks," that at least suggests some understanding of their own threshold. But if someone can't articulate at all, even roughly, where that line is for them, but know for a fact pit bulls and only pit bulls crossed it, then the only coherent conclusion to draw is that they hate pit bulls because of t3h fere.
The distance in the statistics between put bulls and the #2 most dangerous breed, would qualify as a rough idea of where the line is. Somewhere in that gaping chasm between pit bulls and the next most dangerous breed.
Assuming the person actually knows those statistics, has seen them and not just heard some TikTok about them, and has decided that those are relevant over others, yes.
Please love yourself.
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@Aqua-Letifer said in So sweet:
@Aqua-Letifer said in So sweet:
Maybe you’re arguing that it’s incoherent to believe a line has been crossed, unless you can define exactly where that line is. I would disagree with that.
If someone's certain a line has been crossed, but can't explain even roughly what the line is or where it is, then yes, it's incoherent.
I don't expect people to be able to say, "okay, my line is 48 fatal attacks from 2005 to 2017 and if pit bulls had 47 then I'd not consider them a problem."
If someone who has a problem with the breed can say something like, "roughly, the rottweiler number I'm okay with but not the pitt bull number" or "roughly speaking I think pitt bulls and rottweilers are both dangerous because they're kind of outliers with fatal attacks," that at least suggests some understanding of their own threshold. But if someone can't articulate at all, even roughly, where that line is for them, but know for a fact pit bulls and only pit bulls crossed it, then the only coherent conclusion to draw is that they hate pit bulls because of t3h fere.
The distance in the statistics between put bulls and the #2 most dangerous breed, would qualify as a rough idea of where the line is. Somewhere in that gaping chasm between pit bulls and the next most dangerous breed.
Assuming the person actually knows those statistics, has seen them and not just heard some TikTok about them, and has decided that those are relevant over others, yes.
Lots of received ideas are based on decent, rational thought, and those ideas catch on and become propagated and received because they're basically coherent. If this one is basically coherent, I'm not going to judge people for not knowing exactly why.
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This isn't exactly a recent problem. The UK banned the breed back in the 90's. I'm too lazy to Google, but presumably other countries have done likewise with no noticeable ill-effects.
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Please love yourself.
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@Aqua-Letifer said in So sweet:
If this one is basically coherent, I'm not going to judge people for not knowing exactly why.
Yet that's your MO with the wokes?
It's my MO for any received idea that happens to be a good idea.
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Lots of pit bulls here in rural AB. Perhaps a preferred breed. That said, and I’m sure I’ve talked of it here before, my kid and I were involved in an altercation with a mastiff when he was 3 yrs old. To this day, I remain scared and avoid most dogs. (To be brief, I avoided the all out mastiff attack by picking my son up with my one arm, holding up and using his tricycle as a shield between us and the dog with my other arm. We retreated me walking backwards a block and a half. I was shaking like a leaf after we got home safe. The dog wasn’t really at fault as he was scared being left alone in a house and broke through a screen window. His owner was charged a hefty fine by Animal Control officers.).
