The posting of this photo somewhere on Facebook generated 799 comments.
Some of these were sane, which was nice to see, but many were the usual cocktail of self-righteous indignation and lack of self-awareness we see so often these days in America. At one time or another, I’ve owned dogs and children (that came out wrong but please don’t slow me down here), and I’ve always felt the iron grip of responsibility when taking either kind of dependent out into the world. It’s a terrible, oppressive feeling, this feeling of responsibility, which must be too much for many of our citizens to bear, judging from the circumstantial evidence.
Dog owners and child parents are, of course, the real reason for rules (and signs) like this, and not anti-dog or anti-child prejudice.
Reading over these words makes me feel something far worse than crushing responsibility; there’s no way for me to escape the realization that I sound very much like George Will here. So, lest anyone confuse me with that erudite romanticizer of conservative doctrine, I’ll just add the word “fuck” at the end.
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