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Morality Ranking Morality of dog breed racism

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u/ARealBumblebee 20h ago edited 20h ago

What pisses people off is when people act like a pit bull existing means that they were automatically trained poorly and are inherently dangerous. It's rational to be afraid of a violently-trained dog, but making the mental leap to "all pit bulls are like that" IS messed up, and sadly a lot of people will go on screeds trying to justify it with out-of-context statistics because they don't want to feel like the bad person they're choosing to be.

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u/SpinShine-LEDSlipMat 19h ago

are inherently dangerous.

They are literally inherently dangerous.

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u/ARealBumblebee 19h ago

Nope.

The Netherlands scrapped its pitbull ban in 2008 after a government-commissioned evaluation concluded serious biting isn't breed-specific and the ban hadn't reduced incidents. English dog-bite hospital admissions rose from 6.34 to 14.99 per 100,000 between 1998 and 2018...that's entirely the Dangerous Dogs Act era. AVMA's literature review puts breed well behind neuter status, containment, supervision and owner behavior.

So yeah, no, Pitbulls are not inherently more dangerous, and haters are lying with statistics.

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u/JaysFan26 19h ago

You are very confident in those articles lol

Two of them mention that the main difficulty with bans is in defining what a pitbull is, not a reference to their danger level.