geesh....i said “SEEMS”.....anyone who has a PIT BULL these days is asking for judgments to be made.
Well, OK.
But you gotta love Sam... he’s such a cool dog.
I, on the other hand, know many, many "pit bull" owners and none of them are thugs.
Should my experience or yours be the basis for generalizing about "pit bull" owners?
I think you'd probably agree that neither should. That the truth lies somewhere in between.
"The process of moving from the specific to the general is both necessary and perilous... How do we know when we’ve made the right generalization?"
Similarly there are some who focus solely on "pit bull" attacks and generalizing to the whole breed/type, say "they" should be banned; other folks, concerned with all dog attacks, maintain that condemning a whole breed/type based on the action of few dogs (relative to the total population) is an unwarranted, ineffective and simplistic approach to dealing with dog attacks. They instead seek to investigate beyond simple breed/type to discover the contributing factors common to all dog attacks, using that knowledge to make more precise generalizations and in turn formulate more effective strategies to help prevent all dog attacks.
"The dogs jumped the fence, and Agua took Jayden’s head in his mouth and started to shake. It was a textbook dog-biting case: unneutered, ill-trained, charged-up dogs, with a history of aggression and an irresponsible owner, somehow get loose, and set upon a small child. The dogs had already passed through the animal bureaucracy of Ottawa, and the city could easily have prevented the second attack with the right kind of generalization—a generalization based not on breed but on the known and meaningful connection between dangerous dogs and negligent owners. But that would have required someone to track down Shridev Café, and check to see whether he had bought muzzles, and someone to send the dogs to be neutered after the first attack, and an animal-control law that insured that those whose dogs attack small children forfeit their right to have a dog. It would have required, that is, a more exacting set of generalizations to be more exactingly applied. It’s always easier just to ban the breed"
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