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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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      • Chicxulub@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        It subtly insinuates that cats being declawed is the norm and that cats with claws are a deviation from that norm

        No, it doesn’t. Declawing was a common thing to do and it’s still legal in most places. It’s not that unusual to find rescue cats that have been declawed.

        it’s also harmful and atrocious to force that deviation upon them.

        Yes, for the 10th time in this thread, literally no one here has suggested otherwise.

        The top-level comment was an attempt to normalize the mutilation of pets

        Not it’s not, it was an observation of the absence of a still relatively commonly seen occurrence. If they really cared cats, then a simple correction would have sufficed, rather than bringing attention to themselves with passive aggressive shittiness.

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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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      • ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        If one wants to be an ‘aktually’ arse then take note that ‘declawing’ is actually a much more precise term than ‘mutilation of extremities’ which could perfectly well mean putting their tail in a wood chipper and be technically correct

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      • Chicxulub@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Really? You have no grasp on the general demographic and ideological leaning of this platform and how that might be an indicator?

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