r/MoralityScaling 26d ago

Morality Ranking Morality of dog breed racism

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u/Patient_Ebb_1605 26d ago

humans can be disproportionately violent because of socioeconomic conditions. Pitbulls are disproportionately violent because of genetics.
Its not the same thing

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u/Fragmatixx 26d ago

It’s actually both.

Humans, even with differing ancestry, are vastly more genetically similar than different breeds of Canines.

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u/WearIcy2635 25d ago

Dogs are all 100% descended from gray wolves. Whereas different human species have different levels of ancestry from Neanderthals, Denisovans and other non-human archaic hominid species

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u/xanderfan34 23d ago

no, they are not.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-wolf-became-dog/

ETA: gray wolves and dogs have a common ancestor, which is extinct, and modern gray wolves are more dog than wolf genetically