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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (19 children)

Call me weird, but I will never understand the compulsion to imbue these barely sentient creatures with human-like sapience.

It is okay to love and appreciate your pet, but it is fucking weird to project human characteristics on them.

Your dog isn't thinking thoughts like this. Your dog can't think thoughts like this.

This is masturbatory, purely self-serving self-worship ascribed to an animal.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I see the comic as an attempt to translate the existential stress a dog "feels" to the human experience, especially it's intensity. Because even with no language, no consciousness as humans have it, dogs do experience intensity you could measure in cortisol levels, heartbeat, eye movement etc.

The comic is useful for those who are interested in translating that to human experience. A communicative form that works well is narrative framing. It gives your empathy a correspondant in your conscious thinking.

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