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Woman killed by her two XL bully dogs at home in east London (www.theguardian.com)

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[-] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 61 points 5 months ago

Definitely think owning dogs should require a license and a test of some sort like driving a vehicle.

Can't control a 120lb dog? Class B license instead of Class A license.

Only allowed to buy dogs under 100lbs.

Don't understand how feeding and training works? No license for you.

Licenses for being able to own non-fixed animals as well. Being able to breed dogs and cats needs to come with way more responsibility as well.

[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 36 points 5 months ago

Now do kids.

[-] RIPandTERROR@sh.itjust.works 9 points 5 months ago

👮

[-] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 5 months ago

i think murder is already illegal

[-] stephen01king@lemmy.zip 5 points 5 months ago

There should be, but I expect the unintended consequence is a severe drop in birth rate.

[-] Soggy@lemmy.world 22 points 5 months ago

The unintended consequence is genocide. When people need permission to reproduce that introduces a convenient method to keep certain people from having kids.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk -2 points 5 months ago

I think that's the point.

There are some people who just definitely don't have the wherewithal to be parents. They can barely look after themselves, often they don't look after themselves.

Part of the test would be to ask if you plan to name your kid after a Game Of Thrones character.

[-] Pretzilla@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

~~unintended consequence~~ desirable effect

[-] stephen01king@lemmy.zip 6 points 5 months ago

Not always. See Japan and Korea, for instance.

[-] Pretzilla@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Let's hope they figure out how to reduce population gracefully. It's important to save the planet.

[-] stephen01king@lemmy.zip 6 points 5 months ago

The problem is not reducing population, it's to have our economic system be able to cope with population reduction instead of just collapsing. Do you think we have any hope of changing it for the better?

[-] x4740N@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

Do you think we have any hope of changing it for the better?

We do by working towards post scarcity and transitioning away from capitalism

And if they try to stop it we force the transitioning

[-] Kedly@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago

We could also just move to space, we have the tech to start this process

[-] derpgon@programming.dev -1 points 5 months ago

How is that bad? Less pollution and garbage, no need for as much housing (thus dropping house prices), no need for as many stores, vehicles, resources.

And less shitty parents, less homeless people, less crime. I see that as an absolute win.

[-] Ookami38@sh.itjust.works 9 points 5 months ago

It TOTALLY won't be structured in a way to keep people of certain classes unrelated to child rearing ability from essentially reproducing at all.

[-] Dasus@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

And this is why we can't have nice ~~things~~ democracy.

Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

https://time.com/4192760/hitler-munich-excerpt/

[-] derpgon@programming.dev -1 points 5 months ago

It was almost 100 years ago, but yeah, everything leads to Hitler eventually.

[-] Dasus@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

No... no. Not everything, but rhetoric like in your comment.

You're literally cheering on eugenics, with a false hope of what it would achieve.

[-] derpgon@programming.dev 0 points 5 months ago

Alright, I should have prefaced this with "I assume society is working, there is no racism, corruption, non-cis non-hetero people have sufficient rights, and the government is working as intended."

Of course, unfeasible right now.

[-] AlexisFR@jlai.lu 3 points 5 months ago

There is no need, birthrates are already falling.

[-] Crashumbc@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

But the ones breeding shouldn't be...

[-] IvanOverdrive@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago

Now do whatnow!? Are we still doing phrasing? That still a thing?

[-] scrappydoo@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

The UK used to have dog licences, but they were abolished in 1987. https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/RP98-6/RP98-6.pdf

The Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 was amended to ban XL bully dogs in February 2024 unless an exemption certificate is held. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-66775985

[-] x4740N@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

What if a dog grows over 100 american freedom units (lbs)

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 10 points 5 months ago

I'm assuming the fact that dogs grow would probably be accounted for in the license. It's a well documented phenomenon.

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