Definetely weird.

I’m glad you did. Very nice picture and very nice setting. Feels very intimate. Boudoir style.

Wherever I can or am requested.

Was the water cold? You seem tense.

Oh! A wood nymph!

Does this means we achievied a point of agreement or further discord?

You should ask more questions and assume less.

What motivated my vote for decriminalizing abortion in my country was ending the loss of lives and ending the unreasonable and unjustifiable suffering and imprisionment of the women that had to undergo highly dangerous means and procedures to get one. Many women lost their lives and their chance to have children, when they chose to.

This forced law to be drawn and put in place to make sure any woman could get acess to free, informed and safe ways to end an unwanted pregnancy and would have pre and post interruption of pregnancy follow up, to ensure the woman’s physical and mental health and access to proper means of contraception. This also includes verifying if the woman is not subject to abuse and does not abuse abortion.

Abortion was made safe and a last resort, as it should.

I am in favour of medically assisted death, as I am aware that many individuals suffer horrors until reaching their end, be it phisically, mentally, both or in any other way I am unaware of. What I am against is about banalizing euthanasia. It must be a last resort, when nothing can be done to aliviate or mitigate suffering or no cure or solution is available.

People should be allowed to live the best life they can. It is a basic human right. Resorting to terminate life because a person is tired or was defrauded of any expectation is plain basic stupidity. It’s an easy way for an already crooked system to justify not changing.

I wish and want people to get help, be supported, receive the best care humanly possible to give to whatever may be their ailment and, if truly no other option is available, then, make their end as peaceful and painless as possible, with no consequences for healthcare personel, family or friends.

How about that for an anwer, you sanctimonious buffoon?

And I wish I could trip on my ego; meant I had one to begin with, instead of being a paper bag full of self doubt 90% of my time.

On what count?

It seems I hold wrong views, so please be so kind in enlightening me on that.

Give me the option to build the biggest parking building physics allows for and the option to detonate it at will, at full capacity.

That would be entertaining. And if it was a hidden option, even better.

I can not resist the joke.

And deserve the exact same punishment.

I voted in favor of the end of criminalization of abortion in my country; it was the first vote I ever cast and am proud of it.

Not that you asked or even deserve a polite answer after that tirade but I actually saw my mother waste away, for years, as a cancer ate her bit by bit. I don’t wish suffering of any kind to any one, so fuck you and your presuppositions.

And if this answer grants me a ban, I will wear it proudly.

It’s a shame and a disgrace we, as a species, came to the point we are today but if we are to blame anyone - here’s my advice - let’s start by getting our asses from the couch, walk to the nearest mirror and curse at the face staring back at us.

I’m fed up with people that by default take the position that everything is lost and there is no hope. So, again, fuck you and fuck off with that mindset.

Be politically active, stand up for your rights, unionize, talk to other people, meet like minded people, create some change, even if small. Actually do something.

Stop judging for a first.

Did I engage you in bad faith? Refused to answer your questions? I just hold different views from you and will fight to keep them, if necessary at the my own life’s risk.

I’ll repeat it again: I do not want the life of anyone, by default, viewed as discardable or disposable. That is an horrendous way to approach life.

And even children, if faced with health conditions with no hope or chance of improvement or cure.

I’m not against that. Your life, you should - you are - the only one with a word on how to dispose of it.

But to contemplate death because you see no other option for a life worth living, because society, family, friends, whatever failed you, is not the purpose of euthanasia.

Life is worth living.

That we failed people? I just did.

To accept people want to cease to exist? No. Understand it, respect it, tolerate it if to mitigate unreasonable suffering, yes.

Accept it just because, no. Life is not cheap, discardable or disposeable. So, no.

That’s a pretty metal description of what transitioning is. Bang on.

Yet we value life above all else. If people reach that point, where living holds no worth, we as a society have failed them.

Skeletal structure.

This implies stronger bones and stronger joints. With a stronger framework to hold your muscles, you get a sturdier body.

NWN still calls home?

Azores Cattle Dogs

The girls I currently care for were taken, one too early from her mother, at six weeks old, and because I was to overprotective of her, as there was a declaration of an infecto-contagious disease, fatal for puppies, and for which she could not be vaccinated before being six months old, in the least, she lost that very important early socialization window and became a very stressed and fearful dog. Even today, some gestures like rubbing her belly can trigger a growling reaction. She is lovely, otherwise and will bark and lunge but will gladly run off at first chance.

The other one, was the last one leaving her mother, at 12 weeks, but she was very underweight and skittish when coming home. Even today she stresses over food very easily. I risk she was poorly fed and had to fight for every piece she managed to get. She is very territorial and often is the first aggressor when they fight as she does not trust her sister around the family when she starts barking or fretting over anything.

Things have been easier later, as we introduced somw grounds rules to the family, especially my kids, that easily get into panic mode and start screaming for anything, which is a very clear trigger for them. If the kids are scared, there is a potential danger. When they don’t find it, they turn on each other and these are vicious dogs when engaged in a fight.

My male would enter a full kill-or-be-killed attitude when any threat presented itself. I never had any problems with him because we worked very well as a unit and I was always ready to take the first step to send away another dog before things got out of control. But this breed has gladiator spirit: outnumbered, out muscled, they fight to the death, if need be.

I hope I’m understanding your angle of approach on this.

Crowd control dogs are highly trained and don’t go out on a rampage unless commanded to. It’s their handler that triggers the response. Otherwise, the dogs do not exhibit arbitrary aggression behaviour. Even military trained dogs must not demonstrate aggressive tendencies; if so, they would be a danger for their handlers and other allies. The attack behaviour is developed and triggered under specific conditions and commands.

You can train a dog in the same manner. Dog trainning is an open knowledge base and I personally think everyone should work with their dogs in order to give them the best outcome possible for their lives. It’s the closest symbiotic relation our species has with another, in my understanding. And it’s fun.

From this point forward, I’m going to talk from personal experience.

I was lucky enough to have the perfect dog in a very bad point of my life. That dog forced me out of my house, to go on long walks and think on something other than my misery. I never taught a single thing to him beyond sitting and laying down on request. I never taught him to wait for me, keep an eye out when I was foraging for something or being protective of my family.

This was dog that, still not fully grown, took on two other, bigger than him, to protect my infant child, out of his own vollition. And that when called by name returned. This would be the same dog, that years later, would stare down another> , known for being unreliable around children, into submission, a dog the person responsible for feared and kept chained. I had a lord by my side and I was lucky for it.

When that dog died in my arms, of old age, I lost a brother and a son. I’m crying as I write these words.

Today I have two dogs of the same breed but I have severely failed them, by allowing another person to force me to take them to under the wrong conditions: separatly and too early. This created a vicious beggining for their lives, making them fearful and wary of everyone, which made them prone to be aggressive out of fear and aggressive towards each other. Things have been better with some measures but I feel as I failed them.

Most dogs show aggressive behaviour out of improper care, be it by negligence or abuse.

I’ve been studying and working, actively, to be a dog trainer. I have scars, from my own dogs, for mistakes I’ve done. I hold no anger against them. It was my mistakes that made them react to the world as they do today. I’ve helped other people not make the same mistakes with their dogs; it’s my small contribution for a better world, I hope.

I’ve only met two dogs beyond any reach. One diminished from birth causes, making the dog effectively uncapable of acquiring any modulation to his behaviour; besides eating, nothing mattered and he would attack anything he viewed as potentially edible and attack to keep others from food, even after being fed to satisfaction. The other had been severely abused, being given alcohol as a pup, which stunted his development, both physical and mental. The dog would attack out of nothing, anything, and would not calm down until passing out of exhaustion. I believe he suffered from allucinations. Both had to be put to rest, as their lives would never be happy.

So, you can have a dog prepared to defend you. You just need to prove you can take care of the dog properly.

Something like this, perhaps?

If so, perhaps a scenario of workers being caught and mangled by the machine? We can choose whatever scenario we see fit in our minds. Nonetheless, it does sound horrible.

Agreed