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To: Omega Man II
Now owning a particular canine breed is a marker of deviant behavior.

What happened to freedom?

5 posted on 11/19/2006 11:32:19 PM PST by endthematrix ("If it's not the Crusades, it's the cartoons.")
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To: endthematrix
Now owning a particular canine breed is a marker of deviant behavior.

What happened to freedom?

Freedom didn't go anywhere. The data seems to indicate that certain people tend to buy certain kinds of dogs.

21 posted on 11/20/2006 12:07:04 AM PST by Sunnyvale CA Eng.
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To: endthematrix
> Now owning a particular canine breed is a marker of deviant behavior. What happened to freedom?

Nothing at all -- you're free to get whatever kind of dog you want. A correlation statistic does not brand you as a deviant -- the person chooses the dog, not the other way around. If the dog chose their owner, then maybe you'd have a valid complaint. But they don't.

So nothing in the stat says that owning a bit bull makes you a deviant. It -does- say that if you're a criminal, you might tend to get a pit bull rather than, say, a weiner dog or a french poodle. No surprises there.

22 posted on 11/20/2006 12:12:20 AM PST by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
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To: endthematrix

Gee! I dunno!

Are you willing to say it's "gone to tha Dogs"?


32 posted on 11/20/2006 12:24:24 AM PST by CBart95
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To: endthematrix

"What happened to freedom?"

I don't think the study mentioned 'freedom' at all, did it? Whose freedom is jeopardized?


46 posted on 11/20/2006 2:45:13 AM PST by lawdude (The dems see Wal-Mart as a bigger threat to the US than muslim terrorists)
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To: endthematrix
What happened to freedom?

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Its an observation. The bent of the article is that owners are more likely to be criminals. Better phrasing would be that criminals are more likely to be owners.

50 posted on 11/20/2006 4:18:33 AM PST by SampleMan (Do not dispute the peacefulness of Islam, so as not to send Muslims into violent outrage.)
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To: endthematrix

Freedom is doing just fine. You are free to own any dog you want and I am free to have an opinion about you.


73 posted on 11/20/2006 5:26:17 AM PST by Ditter
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To: endthematrix
"What happened to freedom?"

I'm afraid it died a long time ago.

Carolyn

116 posted on 11/20/2006 8:23:51 AM PST by CDHart ("It's too late to work within the system and too early to shoot the b@#$%^&s."--Claire Wolfe)
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To: endthematrix
Now owning a particular canine breed is a marker of deviant behavior. What happened to freedom?

Sheesh - it's simple statistics. Freedom didn't go anywhere. Get over it.

177 posted on 11/21/2006 5:13:06 AM PST by 70times7 (Sense... some don't make any, some don't have any - or so the former would appear to the latter.)
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