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Do you think you experience emotions differently than other human beings? It seems really presumptuous to say you love somthing more than others ever have. Presumptuous and insulting.

Furthermore, i think alot of people would say sacrifice is the greatest display of love, and I would bet a whole lot more parents have sacrificed a whole lot more for their children then anything you have sacrificed for for dog.

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Downvoted because this comment seems fairly OT. The post this responds to was clearly not actually making a literal statement about how all parents in the history of humanity bonded with their children. It was a criticism of the methodology of the study.

You know, it's very possible that he says that as hyperbole, statements like that are very often not to be taken literally.

I love animals, especially dogs. They are a gift to humans. I would never sacrifice myself for my dog. I would in a nanosecond for my child.

I'm sure he takes his dog to "dog care" every day, where it's played with constantly (not caged). He would never leave his dog alone in his 500 square foot apartment all day, barking it's loneliness to the delight of his neighbors.

While such dog care can be very expensive, he sacrifices that money even more gladly than a mother would for her child's care. This is what he implies with his statement, and I see no reason he would lie to us.

You can't analyze a person's behavior, especial their emotional behavior, without including cultural context. Society does not appreciate people leaving toddlers home alone, but they do not care if you do so with a puppy. That alone is enough to make the matter of "dog care" irrelevant in assessing someone's feelings on the matter.

Yes, but the poster loves his dog more than any human has ever loved their child. He does not merely conform to societal norms with such love.

Clearly such an exceptional dog-lover won't conform to your expectations about how that love manifests, either.

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