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• ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  On a whole I don’t support any sort of unnecessary bodily modification, declawing, tail bobbing, circumcisions, or whatever.

  What bothers me is when people find it necessary to interject some unneeded drivel because of some passing word that’s a perfectly well accepted term.

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  • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    You literally just contradicted yourself in two sentences.

    You claim you don’t support inhumane practices, but then you call it “unnecessary drivel” when someone speaks out against them? And then you try to normalize those inhumane practices as simply “perfectly well accepted terms”?

    They’re not just words, those words have meanings, and the meaning of this one is atrocious.

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    • Chicxulub@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Ok, but no one said anything about declawing their cat. No one suggested that declawing cats wasn’t harmful to them. What exactly is the point of getting pissy with someone for using the correct term for a thing?

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      • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        The top-level comment literally said “because the cat isn’t declawed” not “because cats have claws.”

        It subtly insinuates that cats being declawed is the norm and that cats with claws are a deviation from that norm, when the reality is that cats with claws are the norm and that not only are declawed cats a deviation from the norm, but it’s also harmful and atrocious to force that deviation upon them.

        It was an attempt to normalize the mutilation of pets, and the next person’s response was completely appropriate and called for.

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      • explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        If it’s a euphemism then it’s not the correct term; mutilation is correct.

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      • athatet@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        It is the currently used term, perhaps but it’s certainly not the correct one.

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  • lightnsfw@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It’s not unneeded. A lot of people don’t understand what declawing actually is or haven’t put thought into the harm it causes. They just think it’s a harmless way to protect their furniture.

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    • Chicxulub@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      You think a lot of people on Lemmy don’t understand that declawing harms cats?

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      • lightnsfw@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I don’t know what everyone on lemmy knows or not.

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