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Pvt.Scott
Feb 16, 2007

What God wants, God gets, God help us all

Zorodius posted:

if I want to keep a gelatinous cube as a pet that's my right as an American

Cubie isn't a bad guy, he's just naturally drawn to envelop any warm-blooded creature within 15 + 2d6 yards and slowly digest them within his acidic innards

Seriously. If your kid doesn't know not to wander down unfamiliar 10 ft3 stonework hallways without at least a reliable cleric in tow, you are completely at fault as a parent.

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Pvt.Scott
Feb 16, 2007

What God wants, God gets, God help us all
Animals bred for traits retain those traits when no longer desired: news at 11.

Pvt.Scott
Feb 16, 2007

What God wants, God gets, God help us all

Smash it Smash hit posted:

Most people don't know this is commonly what pitbulls look like

I don't know why these things aren't completely illegal. Look at those serrated lamellae, designed specifically to grip onto the supple skin of a human child and drag back along the surface until a major artery is reached and nerves in the gums are stimulated by the beating of an innocent heart. This triggers a clamp-down response coupled with a violent backwards jerking of the pitbull's head, neatly severing any major blood vessels with surgical precision. The wedge shape of the breed's mouth ensures maximum damage is dealt to a localized area. Indeed, pitbulls have sometimes been known to gouge troughs in thick plate steel, such is their viciousness. While one such bite is often enough for the victim of a pit to quickly bleed out, the sadistic creature will usually inflict hundreds of lightning-quick lacerations on an already crippled child. All the while, the child writhes in agony as their tormentor struts around on their hind legs, bellowing out a distinctive "honking" bark.

Pvt.Scott
Feb 16, 2007

What God wants, God gets, God help us all

Yeah, like we don't see you facing towards Auschwitz every time you poop, pit bulls.

Pvt.Scott
Feb 16, 2007

What God wants, God gets, God help us all

Roylicious posted:

It's the same with humans really - genetics predispose you to certain behaviors but they aren't deterministic.

I think the predisposition might be a little stronger in an animal with a mind that works fundamentally different from our own. Dogs aren't going to go to a seminar and find Jesus and then radically change their behavior for life, while than can and does happen to humans. Humans don't have a homing instinct that allows them to be born and then travel to a small region thousands of miles away that they've never visited before due to a natural compulsion, weeaboos excepted.

Dogs and people can both be programmed, but dogs really only have their programming to run on. When there's random "if: infant then: eat else: be adorable" rattling around in your dog's skull, there's only so many ways to suppress that.

Pvt.Scott fucked around with this message at 18:11 on Jun 30, 2016

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