quote:It's still about ownership and commodities - attributes that are assigned value by the owners are encouraged. The "enhancement" to the dog is entirely relative to what the human thinks of it.
This is still the heart of the issue, and nothing about how dogs were originally domesticated changes this. Once man took control of the breeding program, the changes were based on the owners desires.
The value of the dog was directly related to its utility to the owner, however the owner defined that utility.
Think of boys with good voices being castrated to preserve the voice. A whole host of options were removed from those boys because someone wanted to exploit one of their talents.
The problem isn't with the "extreme" cases of eugenics; it's with the underlying idea that the value of human beings is related to their capabilities.
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"They didn't do a very good job of breeding them to have lots of meat, then."
Most chihuahuas were raised as the equivalent of battery chickens, though some were also kept as pets.
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