“What are ‘pets’?”
“Um… they’re animals you don’t eat.”
“I thought those were called, ‘children’?”
That is my favourite dialogue from the animated film, “The Croods”.
I
thought of it recently when the incident of a woman putting her pet
puppy to sleep (for being overly aggressive) resulted in an explosion of
comments on Facebook. Many commenters asked something along the
lines of “what if her children were ‘overly aggressive’? Would she put
them down too?”
Which is an example of “False Equivalencies”.
A puppy is not the same as a child.
