Definitely a good initiative

What's with the thick white borders on lemmy lately? What's the use of adding these? I know there are people who are too lazy to crop their screenshot but in this case someone took the effort of doing the opposite of cropping the image. Why?
- Uncropped? Decropped?
  Anticropped?
  
  Uncropped. Or simply extended.

Still sort of grotesque in that there are probably a lot of inbetween generations that suffer. Most ethically sound idea is probably to just euthanize these breeds and end them entirely.

For love of dog just stop breeding. There are so many unwanted dogs already that need homes.
- Mutts are better anyway. I'm biased because the best dogs I've known were not pure-bred, but still. They also are more resistant to genetic disorders...
  
  I like to call them Bitsa dogs, like a bit of this dog a bit of that dog and you get a wicked bitsa dog.

I'll never understand why people even want pugs. They are not cute, they are ugly abominations. Maybe they were cute before people turned them into this.
- They used to be very cute and were functional dogs. Altdeutscher mops and retro pugs are good examples. Here's an 1800s painting of one.
  
  They are fine in "original" fkrm, but current degenerated pugs are not cute or healthy.
- People are drawn to vulnerable creatures; they inspire nurturing and protective instincts.
  Pug breeders attempt to distill vulnerability to include overly large eyes and an inability to breathe well.

Imagine what people would do if they were allowed to selectively breed humans
- There are some sci fi stories about this. They are... not pretty.
- That's just called eugenics
- The Spanish Habsburgs.
  
  lol
- People on 4chan were talking about that sort of thing at least 15 years ago. I think it was on /tg/, if I remember. They were also much more concerned with the trolling/ethical thought of breeding for the brain. What if you bred someone who only had the thought of serving a master?
  I think that's enough evidence for me that selective breeding is horribly fucked in its outcome no matter the original aims, and the closest we should come is eliminating the 'will kill you' diseases.
  
  What if curing cancer resulted in the creation of a slave cast. Sounds like a pretty good star trek episode
- Don’t sperm banks offer selective sperm choices based on intelligence and physical fitness?
  
  intelligence? as if being brought up by a parent who believes this shit is gonna make you intelligent
  
  There's ZERO regulations in that industry, they can say whatever
- The amount of times I've been blocked on Reddit for pointing out the hypocrisy of humans.. Our species really need to be neutered by default, exceptions only for license holders.
  
  Lead by example!
  
  We as a species spent so, so long learning the painful lesson that eugenics is an awful idea. Can we please not relitigate it? That is, can we please not shift the Overton window back to the ideology that directly led to and inspired the Holocaust?
  
  Oh sure, having a government body decide who's fit or not for reproduction. Absolutely nothing that could go wrong with that. /S
  
  Be the change you want to see in the world

No need to do them next: "Altdeutscher Mops" is a thing already. I guess you'd call them "Old German Pugs" in English?

What will those clever tall bastards think of next?
- I predict hairy sphynx cats

Retro pugs are already a thing?

Fuck off with this.
German wolf hounds (large dogs, full snouts, etc.) live maybe 8 years total.
My pug dog lived 15 years, died of cancer, and never had trouble breathing during those 15 years.
If you google “name of dog breed you think doesn’t have problems” + health issues, you’ll get a list of the problems that breed is prone to.
This is just more Reddit trash that people love to bitch about and I shouldn’t be surprised to see it here, just disappointed.
I’m not against breed changes to improve health at all but the hurr durr I-just-learned-the-word-brachycephalic-and-now-I’m-gonna-act-like-I-invented-it shit needs to die in a fire.
Let’s make all dogs live longer and healthier lives without shitting on any of them.
- The breeder is trying to give future dogs of the breed a better, longer, healthier life.
  You can search any "dog breed + health issues", most breeds just dont list difficulty breathing as their health issue.
- Uh what? You do realize that correcting this genetic defect will 100% make these dogs healthier and live longer, right? So you're upset because...?
  Strangely hostile comment.
- German wolf hounds (large dogs, full snouts, etc.) live maybe 8 years total.
  You're singling out a single obscure breed of dog for some reason (where I assume you mean "German wirehaired pointing wolfhound"?) and then also making a claim about their life expectancy without presenting any evidence. Not only can I not find something saying eight years, I can't find any credible information saying anything at all about this specific breed's lifespan.
  My pug dog lived 15 years, died of cancer, and never had trouble breathing during those 15 years.
  I'm sorry for your loss, but I'm glad they lived a long time.
  French bulldogs are being discussed here, not pugs. They both suffer from brachycephalic airway syndrome, but French bulldogs are substantially worse (see below).
  Even if your dog were a French bulldog, a single anecdote is not statistically significant data.
  French bulldogs demonstrably have a much shorter life expectancy than most other dog breeds. You can see in the data that pugs aren't too far behind.
  If you google “name of dog breed you think doesn’t have problems” + health issues, you’ll get a list of the problems that breed is prone to.
  ...Okay? The point is that we know this is a health problem for French bulldogs and pugs; there's every reason to believe changing their facial anatomy would make things better and seemingly no reason to believe it'd make them worse. This feels like whataboutism.
  I’m not against breed changes to improve health at all but the hurr durr I-just-learned-the-word-brachycephalic-and-now-I’m-gonna-act-like-I-invented-it shit needs to die in a fire.
  I agree that the modern Internet is too capable of rallying people behind causes they don't invest the time to understand, but I don't see anyone underinformed here. We inbred this feature into dogs in the 1900s because it was considered aesthetically desirable. We now recognize this often causes severe medical problems. Changing the facial anatomy should help millions of sentient beings live their lives without said severe medical problems. Becoming aware of a problem and then advocating for a reasonable solution isn't "acting like [they] invented it".
  Let’s make all dogs live longer and healthier lives without shitting on any of them.
  They're not. The reason French bulldogs were singled out here is because of their exceptionally low lifespans, and I think you're thinking people who care about this are getting some smug, fart-smelling satisfaction out of this when really they're just happy to see a glimmer of light in a world that's falling into darkness.
- Dudes bitching about reddit on a 2 month old account saying how lemmy should be. Fuck off with this.
- Sorry to hear about your pug. Fuck cancer. I lost my 16-yo pit bull terrier to cancer a few years back.
  That said, no need to get up in arms about this post. This is still a good thing. If you don’t like it, downvote and move on.
- Nobody's shitting on them though, who are you addressing?
- glad it got put out of its misery, just a shame it took that long. poor thing
  
  This is a needlessly cruel and hostile comment.