asa_red_heathen [he/him]

Previously Asa_the_red, that guy with the viking bit

Norse Pagan/Heathen

Twitter: @baleygrfadr Bluesky: @asa-the-red.bsky.social

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Cake day: July 13th, 2023

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  • My specific argument is with you comparing differences in dog breeds to phrenology. I’m not saying that dogs of a specific breed are more aggressive; Im saying that comparing dog breeds on a morphological level is not the same as comparing human races on a morphological level. Phrenology is a pseudoscience specifically because human races do not vary morphologically, especially not in skull shape. You can easily measure a dog’s skull to tell a Great Dane from a Chihuahua, which is why I used those breeds as an example.


  • Im sorry but can you not see how a Chihuahua and a Great Dane are physically different from one another? One can entirely fit into the others mouth. I’m not arguing that Pit hysteria isnt founded in racism, but the concept that dogs breeds cannot be any more different from each other than human “races” are is insane.

    Your own sources above specifically state that different breeds are identifiable through genetic testing, idk exactly what else you want from me here.




  • Yeah this and this are absolutely more different from each other than a black person and a white person are from each other. Dogs have been selectively bred for ten thousand years, and they’ve been very specifically bred for different roles, literally changing their physical shape. Human beings have not, we’re all pretty much the same. Unless you’re going to argue that domestication and animal husbandry are fake then I do not see how this is equivalent to differences in melanin production.









  • No matter what you do, you will always be “doing your best” because time is linear and you will always have done however well you did. If you could have done better you would have, because “your best” is dependant on you as you exist in the present (as both your physical/mental capability and your will to do something are determined by your material context at the time) and once something is in the past it cannot have been done any other way without changing the material conditions that shaped you back then, which you cannot do. Of course you can get better at doing the same sort of stuff by practicing it over and over, but you’ll still always be doing “your best” each individual time. Even if you deliberately half-ass something you “could” have done better, your choice to half-ass it was calculated based on your conditions at the time, and so you’d never have chosen to not half-ass it unless the conditions were different (which again you cannot change).

    Personally I dont worry about it too much.