I think that it's more complicated than "getting dogs bred from foxes"...
Well, yeah, but that and the sentence following it were more or less quips intended to stand in for a hypothetical longer objection. When I do object to something a friend says, I think a quick-and-simple couple of sentences is a better start than a paragraphs-long manifesto, particularly when I don't know how the conversation will go. And in that vein, your comment about being domesticated preempted such a response. I see a difference between identifying with wild foxes but being willing to domesticate them (or kill them for fur, stuff them, cage them...) in order to get closer to them, and identifying with domesticated foxes. Altering something in order to become closer to it brings a false closeness, and I (think I) would have been cross with you for seeking something thus false (I wouldn't be cross with you for domesticating foxes, since that's hardly your doing); however, what you said just now puts a different spin on the matter.
This is coming from somebody whose experience of greatest closeness with a wild fox was being offered one to eat. I know I have a singular perspective on the matter, and I don't pretend my (preempted) reaction would have constituted a judgment or condemnation. But some such reactions are important to state.
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Date: 2010-10-17 06:30 pm (UTC)Well, yeah, but that and the sentence following it were more or less quips intended to stand in for a hypothetical longer objection. When I do object to something a friend says, I think a quick-and-simple couple of sentences is a better start than a paragraphs-long manifesto, particularly when I don't know how the conversation will go. And in that vein, your comment about being domesticated preempted such a response. I see a difference between identifying with wild foxes but being willing to domesticate them (or kill them for fur, stuff them, cage them...) in order to get closer to them, and identifying with domesticated foxes. Altering something in order to become closer to it brings a false closeness, and I (think I) would have been cross with you for seeking something thus false (I wouldn't be cross with you for domesticating foxes, since that's hardly your doing); however, what you said just now puts a different spin on the matter.
This is coming from somebody whose experience of greatest closeness with a wild fox was being offered one to eat. I know I have a singular perspective on the matter, and I don't pretend my (preempted) reaction would have constituted a judgment or condemnation. But some such reactions are important to state.