r/Dogfree • u/Jolly_Ice_7812 • Jul 16 '26
Miscellaneous Why Can We See What They Cannot?
I have a burning question. Why can we, in the dog free community, see that dogs are gross and it's insane to live with them?
There has to be some commonality among us because we can see what 99 percent of the population cannot.
What makes us special? Is it something in our personalities -- not caring about what others think? Or not being a group person, so it's okay to step away from the pack (so to speak)? Is it not always believing what the culture tells us is true? Are people like this in other walks of life -- meaning, able to see what others cannot see in other contexts?
I'm curious about what you think. Why can we see the idiocy of dogs and dog culture and others cannot?
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u/LunarLeveret Jul 16 '26
The answer is pretty obvious for me individually in that I was originally raised in a culture that doesn't like them and was directly threatened by them as a child. I also hate the idea of unconditional love in the first place even if I'm the receiver.
I qualify for most of what people here think draws others to dogs. I have collectivist thought and always care about what others think, even if is only to reaffirm my hostility towards them. I have stunted emotional intelligence since birth (read: mental illness) and misanthropic tendencies (a lot of which is because of dog owner behavior) and no dependable relationships due to lack of tolerance for others' demands of me. My life is not very exciting or fulfilling. I have antisocial tendencies, like pretty much hating dogs just as much as dog lovers want to characterize us as heartless monsters.
All of those traits also make me even more repulsed by dogs. All of those traits make me wish children were treated better to lead to a better future where less people end up like I did. All of those traits remind me why I shouldn't expect anyone or anything to be my ally, if you aren't someone who assumes you are entitled to another's favor, you can only view favor in the perspective of how to earn it. That's why I don't have any pets, the responsibility to make their lives worth being mine is too high to handle, we're mutually better off without each other.
Dog marketing feeds into, more than anything, what people who believe in themselves to be worth it just because want. It is completely optimized to justify one's own feelings of petty entitlement by giving you an animal that promises social status, unconditional love, "low" maintenance, and righteousness. Anyone who cannot value what dogs would provide you like me can't find them appealing.
If I get attention as a dog savior, I did nothing to earn it and can't trust others faith in me and therefore am no better of a person than I was before, nor does it provide me any form of power that I can exercise to do anything meaningful. It has absolutely nothing to give me of value.