That could still be eccentric depending on the situation in which you ended up killing your neighbor?
E.g. he came at me with a fire axe. And I kicked him down the stairs.
E.g. he came at me with a fire axe. And I kicked him down the stairs.
Is that in the eccentric free pass list? Can you put the list on GitHub?
The kind against whom the same dogs are used as a terror weapon by a “colorful, eccentric” rich neighbor.
Or, Rand Paul: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/rand-paul-attacker...
Without specific information, I'd expect that in any similar situation, both parties had reasons for doing what they did, and it escalated because neither of them would back down. Obviously it's not something that only rich people do.
And beforehand without specific information, I would've assumed that Paul was at fault and Gross was not, based on public images and politics. But it was seemingly the opposite.
Objectively, none of this is probably true (except the last).
Every moral standard is arbitrary if you don't recognize the distinctions being made.
This is not a gotcha, I'm genuinely curious.
It is interesting to watch dogs being treated like humans, almost like children and that sense of care does not extend to very human neighbours.
I don't get it. Probably because its a cultural thing. Anecdotally, where I am from a dog is a dog and will never get more attention than a person. It's not allowed in the house because that's where people live and if you feel lonely you call up a friend or sibling - not cuddle a dog.
One might get the impression that some cultures place more value in a dog than a person, which is bizzare since it is just an animal.
I think you've summed up ,quite succintly, my suspicions about western hegemony. The west is like the Empire in Asimovs Foundation trilogy. Wveryone is too busy looking at their phones to realise everything around them is crumbling.
Unconditional love is valuable for humans.
Wolves have also a huge positive impact in our economy. If we exclude the humans, the wolf is the animal that had saved more human lives in the history, so is in a special category. Dogs and wolves belong to the same species.
Would you mind elaborating on this point? In what way has the wolf saved uncountable human lives? I've only ever seen it portrayed as a human and livestock predator.
EDIT: I've been reading up on the matter. Historically, the wolf has been associated with disease control, as they tend to remove the weakest, sickest members of a given herd from the genetic pool.