Originally Posted by
weero
Nah you just construe a story that isn't there. You naturally have a right of your opinion but this is not what you did. You excused me of a bad experience, an experience I never mentioned or alluded to. It is up to you to support such a claim to avoid my just accusation that you are trapped in your confines without being able to break out.
My original statement:
Originally Posted by
gooselee
Perhaps you had a particularly bad experience in the past, but I think if you gave them a chance, you'd find many other pet owners (and people in general) far more understanding and considerate of others than what your post leads me to believe about you.
You'll note the "perhaps" in there right at the opening, which is my acknowledgement that I know nothing of your experiences, and then my opinion, which is that pet owners tend to be rather understanding and considerate people. No construction of a story about you in there, just a curiosity about where your opinions came from.
In my general understanding of human nature, I've found that when an individual holds such strong opinions as the negative ones you generally have of pet owners, they are usually have some basis in past experience. If you have formed these opinions devoid of a past experience, then I would love to know upon what basis you are making these claims and illustrations of pet owners or "animal lovers":
Originally Posted by
weero
That is the very problem with animal lovers, they just cannot fathom it.
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The threshold for "well behaved" is MUCH higher for the animal lover than for the average person and hence not a standard at all.
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You don't interact with a human, you interact with an animal lover, this can per definition not happen on "common sense" because one sees a filthy drooling slug which wants to infect all food in the room and the other one believes he's giving the returned Messiah a walk through his lowly Earthy realms. Turning away his son-of god-on-a-leash at the lounge will only strengthen his belligerent spirits.
Next:
Originally Posted by
weero
It is up to you to support such a claim to avoid my just accusation that you are trapped in your confines without being able to break out.
My opinions and claims, as I've stated in this thread, are based completely in the words you have chosen to post here. As I do not feel that my posts represent being "trapped in [my] confines" in any way, I'm rather comfortable with you continuing to spew your ungrounded accusation.
I wonder, actually, if you know whether or not I have pets myself, and if so, if I have ever chosen to travel with them. I'd be curious as to what you believe about me, and on what grounds you have formed those beliefs.
Then:
Originally Posted by
weero
But I did not have the courage to vandalize it
Again, just my opinion, but I don't usually feel that acts of vandalism are equated with courage.
Finally:
Originally Posted by
sp4294
Clearly you have not had a discussion with weero before. In any such discussion, work from the basis that there is no alternative viewpoint
Clearly I have not. But I am quite enjoying this exercise in extemporaneous debate. His/her rebuttals have been quite interesting and unexpected.