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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Every dog on the planet is more aggressive than all other dogs on the planet?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Each more similar than the last!

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Well surely it’s a spectrum that people are advocating an arbitrary line be placed on. Once this breed is gone, what about the next most aggressive breed? They then become the most aggressive breed and there’ll be calls to weed them out too. Dogs kill more humans than any other non-human vertebrate in the world by a very long shot - getting rid of one breed isn’t going to reduce that number to zero.

To clarify, I’m not against the move of banning the breed at all, I’m just acutely aware that it’s making an arbitrary distinction.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Pitbulls are deadlier than all other breeds combined. They are 10 times as deadly as the next most aggressive breed. You don't need to pull out the slippery slope fallacy, when the line is very clearly at pitbulls.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That is not a good argument, it is dishonest and disingenuous.

You're actually using the same logic people used to try and avoid gay marriage.