{"id":750,"date":"2017-10-11T16:20:30","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T21:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/?p=750"},"modified":"2017-10-11T16:20:30","modified_gmt":"2017-10-11T21:20:30","slug":"i-hate-puppies-and-babies-and-you-can-get-over-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/2017\/10\/11\/i-hate-puppies-and-babies-and-you-can-get-over-it\/","title":{"rendered":"I Hate Puppies and Babies and You Can Get Over It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Firstly, let me just explain my argument before I get called heartless or insensitive(which I certainly do agree with).\u00a0 I do like animals in general; what I do not like is the idea of domestication. I think animals are useless as &#8220;friends&#8221; to humans in households- that&#8217;s not why they exist. When I state that I absolutely cannot stand puppies or kittens or toddlers or even the sweet-sticky-cuteness of both of these relatively appreciated creatures, I mean it. Why is that a bad thing? I have reasons to back up my statement, the first being:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We tend to elevate the aesthetics that come from animals, and we ridicule them to millions of pictures, scratchy outfits, and high-end dog\/cat food. We are not able to ask what these animals want, whether or not they hate ear scratches or throwing a ball monotonously back and forth; we cannot speak for these animals (obviously).<\/li>\n<li>We are allowed to eat cows, chickens, etc., but not dogs or pigeons? Is this not discriminating to the poor animals we have no heart for? That being said, I have nothing against eating animals, but I think that is extremely odd that we condone the mutilation of some animals for food, clothing, etc. and just keep others as pets.<\/li>\n<li>Secondly, pets are useless besides trying to get away from actual human connection and instead opting for a chill cat or hyperactive Yorkie. I don&#8217;t want to be misunderstood, but I think some people grow up to become &#8220;cat ladies&#8221; just because they despise human connection or feel like no one will accept them as who they are. Does this mean that this &#8220;cat lady&#8221; has cats that love her? Who can figure this out if pets can&#8217;t speak for themselves? Maybe we are hurting animals by domesticating them more that we are helping them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p><em>Side note<\/em>: (Guys I think pets are okay I just really have no other reasons for hating &#8220;cute&#8221; pets besides me just thinking they are grotesque.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My next confession is on children- those disgusting, annoying, absolutely nasty little heathens we take pride in calling our own. I cannot stand small babies because I don&#8217;t like the idea of two people having the responsibilityto fill a newborns&#8217; head with whatever kind of education, ideaologies, mantras, etc. they choose. This is how serial killers are formed. Don&#8217;t get me wrong, some parents do a great job of aising their child to be a responsible citizen in a community; others raise their kids to be sexist, etc. and when the child grows older that&#8217;s\u00a0 all that kid will know.<\/p>\n<p>Also, have you ever realized how insanely dirty children are? Toddlers eat anything that will fit into their mouth, from stale popcorn on the floor to Legos. That&#8217;s terrifying- I think that they are just warming up to learn how to eat people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Firstly, let me just explain my argument before I get called heartless or insensitive(which I certainly do agree with).\u00a0 I do like animals in general; what I do not like is the idea of domestication. I think animals are useless as &#8220;friends&#8221; to humans in households- that&#8217;s not why they exist. When I state that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/2017\/10\/11\/i-hate-puppies-and-babies-and-you-can-get-over-it\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I Hate Puppies and Babies and You Can Get Over It&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=750"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":871,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions\/871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}