I understand your sentiment, but I offer the counterpoint that we do deserve dogs because we literally made them — not in a top down, designing as if we were God kind of way, but through millennia of living alongside them as companions and partners. The domestication of dogs likely started with a mutually beneficial relationship, in which wolves could benefit from warmth and food whilst living in community with humans, and those humans gained hunting partners who would protect human settlements as their own.
In the wild, apex predators often try to avoid conflict with each other, due to the high likelihood that even if you win the fight, you may come away with significant injuries. Dogs are the culmination of what happens when two apex predators go one step further than that and go “actually, let’s be friends”, and I think that’s really cool.
As a collective society we do not deserve dogs.
I understand your sentiment, but I offer the counterpoint that we do deserve dogs because we literally made them — not in a top down, designing as if we were God kind of way, but through millennia of living alongside them as companions and partners. The domestication of dogs likely started with a mutually beneficial relationship, in which wolves could benefit from warmth and food whilst living in community with humans, and those humans gained hunting partners who would protect human settlements as their own.
In the wild, apex predators often try to avoid conflict with each other, due to the high likelihood that even if you win the fight, you may come away with significant injuries. Dogs are the culmination of what happens when two apex predators go one step further than that and go “actually, let’s be friends”, and I think that’s really cool.