(something, something, Burt Ward)
Well, just don't expect any answers about the humans and dogs thing. Every once in a while, people need to mutter and murmur. I always suspect that more people understand the discussions taking place here--at least thematically--than would admit.
As such, remember that some here exist specifically to derail convention. Many of them are bitter, but it serves better to not speculate. We can consider certain reflections of their own behavior:
What is most important to them?
To use a theoretical grouping or stereotype as a starting point: Some people resent the "political correctness" age because it strips away much of the arbitrary hatred that was exploited for our amusement. "
Why can't little black kids play in the sandbox?" is one of the funniest jokes I've ever encountered, but specifically for its acute cruelty. I mean, holy shite, man, who the hell wrote that one originally? What would a dialectic snapshot of that moment tell us about the human condition?
Somewhere in there, though, exists an equivocation that often defies other people's understanding. We can grasp it in a functional aspect, as if viewing a schematic. But sensing it viscerally is something else entirely. That difference has to do with the perceived motivations and impacts of behavior. It has to do with classification. "
What do elephants use for tampons?" is funny, too. Its crude absurdity is striking, or at least was in its day. But it doesn't have the cruel edge about it the way a nigger joke does. And we can all understand that difference, right? (Er ... I hope?) But the difference between hate speech and just condemnation is absent. Think of those whose (American) First Amendment rights will only be fulfilled under conditions that include the suppression and suspension of said rights for others. Christian library trolls, for instance. Oregon homophobes. Also eroded to a mere shadow of itself is the separation between barbaric and other traditions. The end of open racism in society and politics means the end of an entire way of life through at least a quarter of the United States.
People are ... well, the answer to the hideous joke is ... oh, never mind. Point being, I understand. The end of tradition bites. But--and here's a classification thing again--is it the end of a tradition, or a transformation? "Traditional marriage"? Ha! What Americans call "traditional marriage" is based on a myth purporting a massive statistical deviation between about 1947 and 1962. There are so many "traditions"--many surrounding the selling of brides--knocked down by romantic marriage and marital equality that we might wonder whether to call it "marriage" at all. But we do, and this is because it's not the end of a tradition, but its evolution.
Many of the traditions people feel are threatened will not die if the traditionalist demand is refuted. These traditions will, quite simply, evolve. And this is a difficult enough thing to explain to these disaffected, whining twats.
But if we add to that the observation that certain traditions ought not live on--that some are better left to the lessons of history--it isn't hard to understand why some people see their entire human identity under siege.
And in that sense, we owe them some certain sensitivity. But that's actually beside the point. More importantly, we should bear in mind that there are reasons people choose to focus as they do. In some way, they can't figure out the difference between the two. If it's A and B, the fact that they're both letters ought to suffice. Apples and oranges? It's food. Italian or Chinese? As long as it's takeout ....
Everything else, the bluster and bravado, is merely a matter of selection from the sparse masks offered this statistical outcome. Under different circumstances, according to different classifications, the behavior might be more useful in general, and even rewarding to the individual. But circumstance, being what it is, says otherwise.
Rancid frosting snowflakes on sweating rose-petal tongues teasing to tempt the palate, and sicken the stomach.
That's what we get some days. If you have a God, blame It. If not, life goes on.
Syllogism:
Remember: Nature abhors a vacuum.
Remember: Nature is not extraneous.
Therefore: Everything you experience is justified by nature ...
... or, That's the way it goes. We make of it what we will.
