I think it's unexamined ideology. there's a project to indoctrinate us to not have empathy for humans in distress, to see their circumstances, generally, as a product of their choices.

there is something similar at work for animals, but it's less acute and relies a lot on "out of sight, out of mind" and speciesism. animals in the built environment are pretty tightly controlled in the US. shit, imagine the amount of effort it would take to overcome the outcry over the number of loose, feral dogs getting blasted by cars we would have to see here.

guarantee most people who wanted to save this dog and ignores the human passively assumed this guy could "take care of himself" in a way they felt the dog could not.

[–] TommyBeans@hexbear.net 16 points 3 days ago

I think it's unexamined ideology. there's a project to indoctrinate us to not have empathy for humans in distress, to see their circumstances, generally, as a product of their choices.

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guarantee most people who wanted to save this dog and ignores the human passively assumed this guy could "take care of himself" in a way they felt the dog could not.

Yup. It’s rationalized (if at all) as “this person is in this situation because of their choices and they can choose something else” vs “this poor dog didn’t choose to be here we need to rescue it”