So, basically youre just mad that I am right? Its in your right to buy a dog from a breeder, if thats what you want, but its a ridiculous thing. A dog is a dog, and all that breeder specific trait research is not something that you, as a dog enthusiast/lover should strive for. Its a ridiculous thought to go for the dog that you like because of its looks or "temperament" if theres similar already born ones waiting in shelters just to get grabbed.
The problem isnt that they dont live happy life in the shelters, btw, most do. Its the fact that theres plenty of dogs that havent reached the shelter that dont live a decent life, or that some are in need of medical support.
People dont like it when you burst their NA confort bubble, I know.
I can't talk for others, but in my case, I don't really like being chasticize about saving dogs when it is a socio-economic problem, and if you really want to get down to the root of the problem, if you are really interested in ENDING the problem, well it is the same root cause as most of our modern problems. Our socio-economic system. I don't like this (your claims about NA comfort), because I have put all my life efforts into going at the root of the problem, and find that anything else is just like someone trying to bring down a dead tree by hacking at the branches.
Whether it's people who save dogs, cats, volunteering, enrolling into the salvation army, joining Green Peace, or what have you, they are all helping their own self-worth and reducing the guilt felt at being priviledged, as much as they are helping. But in the end, their impact is extremely small and will never amount to much.
So here I'm about to burst your own NA comfort bubble. If you were really interested in changing things, you'd try to understand human nature, the human condition and the system we live in, and search for alternatives. This is painstakingly long. I know it is, because it is the path I have chosen, it is what has obsessed me for the greater part of my life (25 years now), have spent years reading a panoply or interlocking disciplines all related to this understanding.
This is our next revolution and it is already underway. In the next 20 years, you will hear more and more about our real nature. Not the one that has been wrongly spread over the last two centuries, but the one that actually puts human behavior in it's place. Our behavior is about context. Our behavior is mediated by our environment. Social stratification and socio-economic inequalities are at the root of most abherent and misadapted behaviors. This revolution will bring a better understanding of what needs to be done as a civilization to reduce our major societal problems. You can't create a functional system of managing human life and society without understanding human nature and the related basic needs for a good development of a functional, sociable human being.
If you really want to change things, start by reading behavioral biology and all the subjects related to it.
Any chance I get, I talk about this. Some may find me annoying, but this is the only solution for our future, our only true salvation, is a better understanding of ourselves, and the only way to advance towards a better future is to make this known.
It is virtually impossible to understand biology outside the context of environment. And this is the key. This is what needs to be understood. This concensus is in its infancy, so most people are unaware of it, but sooner it spreads, the better, and scientific truths like this one will eventually take hold. But since we have an urgent need to find alternatives to our present way of living, the spread of this knowledge is the one single most important thing anyone can do. There is no other path. I searched all my life for this path, and took years before I found it, and granted, I'm a bit different than most. I get obsessed with the biggest, most complex systems we see, want to understand them. I don't care to be right either, I care to understand, quite simply.
So yeah... bad me for wanting a specific dog over a stray. I don't feel ashamed one bit as I put in the effort at the right place to change this world, while you concern yourself with saving strays, I want to change the world for everyone, including strays.
BTW, im saying all of this respectfuly. it's not a rant.