[Salamander]

"The men's autonomy, mobility and identity as providers ended when they lost their teams."

There's your "absolute truth", right there.
It's the ultimate liberal goal for -everyone-.

Crazy as it sounds, when all the Y2K wackos were ranting about the upcoming millennial "martial law apocalypse", my first thought was for my dogs.

I could deal with the thought of being gunned down myself but to watch my dogs slaughtered without any way to stop it would be worse than death.

[and yes, I've learned to avoid crackpot conspiracy websites since then]...;)

[Xenalyte]

Hell, our group of friends spent New Year's Eve 1999 together, in the house that had the most guns (and we brought all our own), and had all our animals with us (a little chaotic, yes), and we were ready to deal with marauders and pillagers and whatever came our way.