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Originally Posted by Superbelt
Purebreed dogs have serious health problems.
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Not all purebred dogs have serious (or even not-so-serious) health problems. And a great many of those health problems are caused by poor breeding (letting a trait continue by continuing to breed the dog with the trait) rather than being caused by inbreeding.
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Dalmations for instance have a brain that grows too large for its skull cavity, putting pressure that drives them blind and into serious pain.
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Where did you get this? I've been looking all over the net and can't find ANY documents on this.
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Others regularly develop chronic joint problems and premature organ failures. These are direct results of bad genes being carried through a limited population.
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Actually they're the direct results of bad genes being allowed to breed period. If an Amish guy has a dominant gene for early onset alzheimers, he's going to pass it on to his kids whether he has the kids with his cousin or a complete outsider.
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What goes on in their communities doesn't effect us much, beyond the safety issues of their buggies and unnecessary nutrient runoff from their farms.
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But that unnecessary nutrient runoff, again, only effects THEM. If they want to strip their fields of nutrients (hasnt' happened yet I notice) then that's their choice.
As to the safety issues of their buggies - - yeah, every once in awhile we hear about some jerk that plowed into a buggy, but then we also hear about people running over bicycle riders too.
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I'm mostly disappointed..
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And I'm disappointed in your attitude toward them, but I don't wish for you to die out
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I don't advocate 'invading their communes, killing their leaders and converting them to average Americans'. I'm not saying we should interfere at all.
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Never thought you did - if you did advocate that the discussion would have turned toward psychological counselling
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But I am going to say from my POV they waste their lives and continue it with their children.
It's just sad, and don't value their choice.
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Well saying that you don't "value their choice" is quite different from hoping they die out. I'm glad to see your attitude has shifted to this one.