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Do you just go around looking to be offended?
In this instance I agree with his point though. I don't see you walking around without fingertips.
On a whole I don't support any sort of unnecessary bodily modification, declawing, tail bobbing, circumcisions, or whatever.
What bothers me is when people find it necessary to interject some unneeded drivel because of some passing word that's a perfectly well accepted term.
You literally just contradicted yourself in two sentences.
You claim you don't support inhumane practices, but then you call it "unnecessary drivel" when someone speaks out against them? And then you try to normalize those inhumane practices as simply "perfectly well accepted terms"?
They're not just words, those words have meanings, and the meaning of this one is atrocious.
Ok, but no one said anything about declawing their cat. No one suggested that declawing cats wasn't harmful to them. What exactly is the point of getting pissy with someone for using the correct term for a thing?
If it's a euphemism then it's not the correct term; mutilation is correct.
It is the currently used term, perhaps but it’s certainly not the correct one.
The top-level comment literally said "because the cat isn't declawed" not "because cats have claws."
It subtly insinuates that cats being declawed is the norm and that cats with claws are a deviation from that norm, when the reality is that cats with claws are the norm and that cats being declawed is the deviation. Not only that, but it's also harmful and atrocious to force that deviation upon them.
The top-level comment was an attempt to normalize the mutilation of pets, and the next person's response was completely appropriate and called for.
No, it doesn't. Declawing was a common thing to do and it's still legal in most places. It's not that unusual to find rescue cats that have been declawed.
Yes, for the 10th time in this thread, literally no one here has suggested otherwise.
Not it's not, it was an observation of the absence of a still relatively commonly seen occurrence. If they really cared cats, then a simple correction would have sufficed, rather than bringing attention to themselves with passive aggressive shittiness.
Exactly, all the more reason to call it out when you see language that normalizes it.
If you agree that it's bad, then get with the effing program instead of focusing your ire on the people who are actually calling it out!
Again, a sane person would say "cats have claws," not "that cat hasn't been declawed." See the difference?
Oh, you want to question whether someone really cares about cats? Someone who actually called out language that was attempting to normalize declawing, while you're the one rushing to defend that language? I don't think so.
You're the one doing that by arguing on the same side as the rhe people saying things like "do you go around looking for reasons to be offended" and "some people make impotent rage their identity."
It's not unneeded. A lot of people don't understand what declawing actually is or haven't put thought into the harm it causes. They just think it's a harmless way to protect their furniture.
You think a lot of people on Lemmy don't understand that declawing harms cats?
I don't know what everyone on lemmy knows or not.
Really? You have no grasp on the general demographic and ideological leaning of this platform and how that might be an indicator?
Is that information even available anywhere or are we just guessing?
Yes, it is available.
Oh. Alright then.
If one wants to be an 'aktually' arse then take note that 'declawing' is actually a much more precise term than 'mutilation of extremities' which could perfectly well mean putting their tail in a wood chipper and be technically correct
Are you literally being the arse you wish to see in the world?
Also, no, that's a really shitty take. "Mutilation" doesn't have to refer to the most extreme examples in every case. Amputating the tips of their digits is mutilation, and just because you can think of a more extreme example of mutilation doesn't change that fact.
Fuck you. Clipping animals to make them more human friendly is atrocious.
Where did literally anybody support declawing cats.
They answered yes while creating a reason to be offended for having to answer yes.
Can't make this shit up. Impotent rage is some people's identity.
They didn't "create a reason to be upset." Declawing cats is a reason to be upset. It's inhumane.
How would you feel if someone cut all your fingertips off at the first knuckle and said "wow, impotent rage must be your identity" when you got upset about it?
I take offense to that.
No, I'm just a guy who doesn't hate cats.
I take offense to that. I'm a guy who hates cats but still doesn't think they should be declawed.
Right on, brother!