My older dawg is a better person than you.

[Wyldkat]

Definitely agree with the OP.  I have three dogs and they are amazing creatures.

I've had many rats and they are nifty little things.  One of my best pets ever was a rat.  I'd disagree about the male/female thing though.  I've always had girls (with one exception) and I didn't see much difference, other than the smell, between the one boy I had and other people's males.  I've kept them alone and in groups of two to three and the loners never had any problems.  Of course they had tons of human contact also.

[East Coast Hustle]

Definitely agree with the OP.  I have three dogs and they are amazing creatures.

I've had many rats and they are nifty little things.  One of my best pets ever was a rat.  I'd disagree about the male/female thing though.  I've always had girls (with one exception) and I didn't see much difference, other than the smell, between the one boy I had and other people's males.  I've kept them alone and in groups of two to three and the loners never had any problems.  Of course they had tons of human contact also.

OK, but you're wrong. Or, at least, every single book or website I've ever read on the subject says you are. They could all be wrong, though.

[Jasper]

My poodle is the best person I know.  He's got every bit as much character as any human I've ever known, and like Roger's dog, he's heartbreakingly good natured.  It's humbling. 

[Lies]

Dog's are good people. They're better people than any ACTUAL so called "people" I can think of.

Proof that dogs are better people than people? Better than even, say, your spouse/lover?

If you were to say, lock your spouse in the boot of the car, and lock your dog in the boot of your car, and then let them out an hour later, who do you think will be happier to see you?

[Requia ☣]

I would avoid female rats just because they have an amazing ability to get pregnant.  

[Juana]

Dog's are good people. They're better people than any ACTUAL so called "people" I can think of.

Proof that dogs are better people than people? Better than even, say, your spouse/lover?

If you were to say, lock your spouse in the boot of the car, and lock your dog in the boot of your car, and then let them out an hour later, who do you think will be happier to see you?

Proof that dogs are better than people? They'd never talk about locking you in their trunk.


I love my dogs. My little one's more like your older dawg, Roger - so good natured. He's also the funniest dog I have ever met.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Funniest thing is, this thread wasn't actually about dogs.

It was about the banality of evil.

[Luna]

Funniest thing is, this thread wasn't actually about dogs.

It was about the banality of evil.

This shit happens.   

[Enrico Salazar]

Ah, Roger, you bring tear to Enrico's glass eye.

He will always remember his first albino doberman, Stinky, who rip off brother Pogo's face during Enrico's ninth birthday party... how could anyone ever top such a gift?

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Ah, Roger, you bring tear to Enrico's glass eye.

He will always remember his first albino doberman, Stinky, who rip off brother Pogo's face during Enrico's ninth birthday party... how could anyone ever top such a gift?

Is give robot-doberman.  Is know no pity.

[Enrico Salazar]

Ah, Roger, you bring tear to Enrico's glass eye.

He will always remember his first albino doberman, Stinky, who rip off brother Pogo's face during Enrico's ninth birthday party... how could anyone ever top such a gift?

Is give robot-doberman.  Is know no pity.

Is true, we teach it to the children and we teach it to the dogs. 

[navkat]

It's funny: the last dog I spent any time around was an AmStat--like Nigel's dog. Best fucking dog on the planet, IMO. Totally made me start thinking about taking on a canine companion sometime soon again.

If I ever do, I'll look for either an AmStat, Border Collie or Aussie Sheepdog.

[LMNO]

Don't have a dog.  Don't want one, in the city.

Evil is the shitty compromise, the impersonal and faceless bureaucracy that mangles citizens out of nothing but a sense of inertia, the intelligence organization that fucks with millions of people just because they can, the very idea of walking past someone who is suffering, simply because you couldn't care less, the desire to see people pushed deeper into the shit than you are, etc.

Only humans can actually be Evil.  Hell, even the fallen angels in the Christian mythos did what they did out of pride and anger...evil with a small e.  Humans, on the other hand, do what they do because they can't be arsed to do or think anything different, and THAT is Evil with a capital E.

You've seen it.  It's the little things.  Cops who like to lean on people they stop, just a bit.  Jackasses defending torture "to keep us safe".  The desire by the masses to be ruled by a king (many Americans believe the president can fire congressmen, for example), in their essentially servile natures.  Assholes who beat up their wives.  The same wives standing by while asshole abuses the kids for good measure.  The bitter campaigns to keep ugly truths under wraps.  The constant need most people feel to define what rights people don't have.

This is the bit I keep coming back to.

[Lord Cataplanga]

Don't have a dog.  Don't want one, in the city.

Evil is the shitty compromise, the impersonal and faceless bureaucracy that mangles citizens out of nothing but a sense of inertia, the intelligence organization that fucks with millions of people just because they can, the very idea of walking past someone who is suffering, simply because you couldn't care less, the desire to see people pushed deeper into the shit than you are, etc.

Only humans can actually be Evil.  Hell, even the fallen angels in the Christian mythos did what they did out of pride and anger...evil with a small e.  Humans, on the other hand, do what they do because they can't be arsed to do or think anything different, and THAT is Evil with a capital E.

You've seen it.  It's the little things.  Cops who like to lean on people they stop, just a bit.  Jackasses defending torture "to keep us safe".  The desire by the masses to be ruled by a king (many Americans believe the president can fire congressmen, for example), in their essentially servile natures.  Assholes who beat up their wives.  The same wives standing by while asshole abuses the kids for good measure.  The bitter campaigns to keep ugly truths under wraps.  The constant need most people feel to define what rights people don't have.

This is the bit I keep coming back to.

It's like behind the apparent stupidity of humans, there is actual stupidity. The kind of Evil that is not even self-interested.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Don't have a dog.  Don't want one, in the city.

Evil is the shitty compromise, the impersonal and faceless bureaucracy that mangles citizens out of nothing but a sense of inertia, the intelligence organization that fucks with millions of people just because they can, the very idea of walking past someone who is suffering, simply because you couldn't care less, the desire to see people pushed deeper into the shit than you are, etc.

Only humans can actually be Evil.  Hell, even the fallen angels in the Christian mythos did what they did out of pride and anger...evil with a small e.  Humans, on the other hand, do what they do because they can't be arsed to do or think anything different, and THAT is Evil with a capital E.

You've seen it.  It's the little things.  Cops who like to lean on people they stop, just a bit.  Jackasses defending torture "to keep us safe".  The desire by the masses to be ruled by a king (many Americans believe the president can fire congressmen, for example), in their essentially servile natures.  Assholes who beat up their wives.  The same wives standing by while asshole abuses the kids for good measure.  The bitter campaigns to keep ugly truths under wraps.  The constant need most people feel to define what rights people don't have.

This is the bit I keep coming back to.

It's like behind the apparent stupidity of humans, there is actual stupidity. The kind of Evil that is not even self-interested.

Yep.  Just laziness.

That's why so much of the Evil you see is boring.