05-01-2018, 06:06 PM
(04-30-2018, 06:35 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:(04-29-2018, 09:13 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: Am I perfectly rational? No.
I know you have some sort of dog thing. You seem obsessed and delusional. Well, in the old days of hunter gatherers, the dogs would corner or exhaust the prey, and wait for the more deadly of the two partners to arrive. The humans were equipped, trained and ready. They would finish the job. The humans were dominant, the dogs less so.
Since then, many humans have chosen to become wimps. Not all, but many. Technology has potentially made them all the more potent, but many choose to be helpless. Even today, if a criminal with a gun wanted a dog dead, the dog would be dead. You would be a fool to seriously think otherwise.
Or at least as dead as your arguments. Many blue think that if they really concentrate on thinking nice thoughts, they can ignore nature red with blood. Well, they can't. It isn't done by wishful thinking. Bottom line, you still have to be stronger than the other guy. If you think you don't have to be, you might be dreaming.
Nature is red in blood. The human-canine partnership is effectively one bear, Big Cat, or hyena.
The dog that the crook knows about and for which he has a firearm ready is going to lose. But remember that if the crook does not know about the dog, then the advantage goes to the dog. A dog is usually strong enough to overpower a man three times the dog's mass. of the crook is knocked down, then the dog may have effectively separated the crook from his weapons. He will be be defending himself from bites, and not very well. Crooks often act at night, but dogs have better night vision, let alone scent and hearing. The fog knows about a crook, all too often, before the crook knows about the dog. Whoever attacks first wins.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.