LadyButterfly she/her ( LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone ) to General Memes & Private Chuckle@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 6 months agoI see their pointpiefed.cdn.blahaj.zoneimagemessage-square60linkfedilinkarrow-up1368
arrow-up1368imageI see their pointpiefed.cdn.blahaj.zoneLadyButterfly she/her ( LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone ) to General Memes & Private Chuckle@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 6 months agomessage-square60linkfedilink
minus-squareDudleyMason ( DudleyMason@lemmy.ml ) linkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 months ago I’m struggling to find the part OP thinks is a “scam”. The part where it’s illegal to charge extra for children but not illegal to charge extra for pets. They’re right, it’s bullshit and it shouldn’t be allowed.
minus-squareMelllvar ( charonn0@startrek.website ) linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 months agoI think it’s a false equivalence. A human child is not the same thing as a pet animal. Framing the issue purely in terms of how much damage potential they have seems to be dismissing that distinction for no good reason.
minus-squareDudleyMason ( DudleyMason@lemmy.ml ) linkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 months ago dismissing that distinction for no good reason Any reason is a good reason to dismiss that distinction. Pets are family. We don’t love them less than human family, or at least decent people don’t.
minus-squareMelllvar ( charonn0@startrek.website ) linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 months ago“Help control the human population, have your children spayed or neutered.” (/s) Maybe we shouldn’t dismiss the distinction so readily.
The part where it’s illegal to charge extra for children but not illegal to charge extra for pets.
They’re right, it’s bullshit and it shouldn’t be allowed.
I think it’s a false equivalence. A human child is not the same thing as a pet animal. Framing the issue purely in terms of how much damage potential they have seems to be dismissing that distinction for no good reason.
Any reason is a good reason to dismiss that distinction. Pets are family. We don’t love them less than human family, or at least decent people don’t.
“Help control the human population, have your children spayed or neutered.” (/s)
Maybe we shouldn’t dismiss the distinction so readily.