I'm sorry, again, since this isn't my LJ, it's your turf: but this "type" thing you keep saying is very dismissive and depersonalizing, feels like a put-down. I've already apologized for daring to question your judgment about your own dogs. But please don't project your ex-MIL onto me. I certainly wouldn't force a kid who wasn't cold/didn't want a coat to wear one just because I felt cold. (And I'll be sure to notify the moms I know that they're being mean to their kids by trying to prevent colds later on by making them wear coats in winter. If you think a 5 year old has better judgment than an adult, well, I don't know how to respond to that in a polite way.)
Common sense tells me that if it's 0 degrees out with windchill, it's not "anthropomorphizing"* for me, or for you for that matter, to wonder if a critter might feel less than comfy in cold weather and take some small step to help out. But no doubt you know better, being an outdoors "type". We'll have to agree to disagree and no worries, from now on I'll keep my ignorance to myself and my own LJ and won't bother you here in your territory. Thanks for the enlightening, if discomfitting, conversation.
*(You may think I'm overreacting to your tone, but I find this to be another put-down term, as it's often used by lab researchers to dismiss the concerns of "animal rights nutjobs" about what tortures they might be inflicting in the name of science.) (And for the record, no, I don't dress my cats up fur jackets or diapers, paint their toenails, hand feed them roast pigeon, or ascribe human emotions to them. I don't even call them "baby." Sweetie, maybe, when they are.)
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Date: 2007-02-05 10:49 pm (UTC)Common sense tells me that if it's 0 degrees out with windchill, it's not "anthropomorphizing"* for me, or for you for that matter, to wonder if a critter might feel less than comfy in cold weather and take some small step to help out. But no doubt you know better, being an outdoors "type". We'll have to agree to disagree and no worries, from now on I'll keep my ignorance to myself and my own LJ and won't bother you here in your territory. Thanks for the enlightening, if discomfitting, conversation.
*(You may think I'm overreacting to your tone, but I find this to be another put-down term, as it's often used by lab researchers to dismiss the concerns of "animal rights nutjobs" about what tortures they might be inflicting in the name of science.) (And for the record, no, I don't dress my cats up fur jackets or diapers, paint their toenails, hand feed them roast pigeon, or ascribe human emotions to them. I don't even call them "baby." Sweetie, maybe, when they are.)