It's closing time at work and we are all waiting for our manager to finish her business so we can leave. I am talking to another coworker about Twinkie, who is a mini schnauzer, and I am saying how we didn't get her tail cut or her ears trained, which is apparently what normal schnauzer owners do.
Genius cuts in here, asking why would anyone cut a dogs tail, and I, not really knowing for sure, say that I suppose its just a vanity thing for certain breeds. She then proceeds to say that all dogs purpose is for vanity, because, what I am guessing her argument was here (it was really hard to follow, you'll see) dogs do not count as real animals, and they were basically created by humans in a lab.
Um.
What?
Her argument is that dogs were not domesticated from wolves, but rather humans bred specific animals with wolves to create an automatically domesticated dog. (when asked what animals, she replied, 'i don't know, beavers.') I asked if that meant that some flowers are not real flowers because of cross pollination done in labs? she didn't like that. When I tried to make the argument that cats must not be animals either then, since they are just like domestic wild cats, she disagreed stating that cats were a completely different animal (true) and that they think completely different than dogs (also true) and that dogs were an ABOMINATION, but that that was ok. I responded by asking "uhhh....aren't abominations by definition NOT ok?" and she told me that, no, the word abomination just has negative connotations, but they aren't bad. She's an abomination, and she thinks she's pretty cool! She then told me that you could look back in time and see a specific date when dogs were created, and when I questioned all of this, she told me to research it.
I did. Thanks, Wikipedia, for telling me exactly what I thought, which is that dogs are domesticated from the grey wolf due to human interaction and that they are awesome for hunting, working, companionship, and that scientists disagree on when and how it happened, so no one knows when dogs were domesticated but they estimate that dogs separated genetically from wolves about 15,000 years ago. YEAH.
I also looked up the definition of abomination online...pretty much the ultimate of negative-ness by definition, if you consider words like 'vile' and 'abhor' to be negative.
Heres the thing. When these conversations happen, I am not exactly "taking a stand" or anything. The previous conversation, I was just talking about music I like, and this one I was mentioning my dog. But it is as if this girl needs to take a big stand, and it be the opposite of what I feel. He arguments are based on...from what I can tell, her own made up facts, but to herself, she is right, and therefore she won't listen to factual information and reasonable arguments. I am seriously not looking to argue with this girl, and I really don't want to because it's not an intelligent one.
Though I hope you all find it amusing, because I'm at the point now where everything is just...ludicrous.
There's like a whole movie with Ethan Hawke all about that too. People are funny. xoxo
ReplyDeleteSC