Woman killed by her two XL bully dogs at home in east London - eviltoast
  • Treczoks@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    If she was unable to control them, she should not have gotten permission to own them in the first place.

    • Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca
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      6 months ago

      Definitely think owning dogs should require a license and a test of some sort like driving a vehicle.

      Can’t control a 120lb dog? Class B license instead of Class A license.

      Only allowed to buy dogs under 100lbs.

      Don’t understand how feeding and training works? No license for you.

      Licenses for being able to own non-fixed animals as well. Being able to breed dogs and cats needs to come with way more responsibility as well.

        • stephen01king@lemmy.zip
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          6 months ago

          There should be, but I expect the unintended consequence is a severe drop in birth rate.

          • Soggy@lemmy.world
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            6 months ago

            The unintended consequence is genocide. When people need permission to reproduce that introduces a convenient method to keep certain people from having kids.

            • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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              6 months ago

              I think that’s the point.

              There are some people who just definitely don’t have the wherewithal to be parents. They can barely look after themselves, often they don’t look after themselves.

              Part of the test would be to ask if you plan to name your kid after a Game Of Thrones character.

              • Pretzilla@lemmy.world
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                6 months ago

                Let’s hope they figure out how to reduce population gracefully. It’s important to save the planet.

                • stephen01king@lemmy.zip
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                  6 months ago

                  The problem is not reducing population, it’s to have our economic system be able to cope with population reduction instead of just collapsing. Do you think we have any hope of changing it for the better?

                  • x4740N@lemmy.worldOP
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                    6 months ago

                    Do you think we have any hope of changing it for the better?

                    We do by working towards post scarcity and transitioning away from capitalism

                    And if they try to stop it we force the transitioning

                • Kedly@lemm.ee
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                  6 months ago

                  We could also just move to space, we have the tech to start this process

          • derpgon@programming.dev
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            6 months ago

            How is that bad? Less pollution and garbage, no need for as much housing (thus dropping house prices), no need for as many stores, vehicles, resources.

            And less shitty parents, less homeless people, less crime. I see that as an absolute win.

            • Ookami38@sh.itjust.works
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              6 months ago

              It TOTALLY won’t be structured in a way to keep people of certain classes unrelated to child rearing ability from essentially reproducing at all.

                • Dasus@lemmy.world
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                  6 months ago

                  No… no. Not everything, but rhetoric like in your comment.

                  You’re literally cheering on eugenics, with a false hope of what it would achieve.

                  • derpgon@programming.dev
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                    6 months ago

                    Alright, I should have prefaced this with “I assume society is working, there is no racism, corruption, non-cis non-hetero people have sufficient rights, and the government is working as intended.”

                    Of course, unfeasible right now.

        • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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          6 months ago

          I’m assuming the fact that dogs grow would probably be accounted for in the license. It’s a well documented phenomenon.