CHAPTER 5 Get Your Kid a Dog

Ho una figlia. Ed è migliore dei vostri figli. Perchè? Perchè è mia. Per capire, tu che nn hai figli, fatti un cane....

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Ho una figlia. Ed è migliore dei vostri figli. Perchè? Perchè è mia. Per capire, tu che nn hai figli, fatti un cane....Quanto detto è irrazionale ma sensato. È un dogma. Ecco, abbiamo appena sperimentato quanto dogmatismo e senso possano essere legati...chi condivide capisce come la "proprietà comune" dei bimbi sia un concetto deleterio...Il cane rappresenta il pre-politico, la pura affezione, il puro legame xsonale. Ti dimostra che una simile dimensione esiste e che il totalitarismo è assurdo. Cosmo si è fatto cocvolare da Ted Kennedy!

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CHAPTER 5 Get Your Kid a Dog
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HERE IS WISDOM: Have a kid? Get a dog. Want a kid? Get a dog. Don’t want a dog? Get a cat, which is like training wheels for dog ownership.
Note:DICE IL SAGGIO

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Want a kid? Get a dog. Don’t want a dog? Get a cat, which is like training wheels for dog ownership.

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my tolerance for poop disposal and unremunerated feedings. Why would I saddle myself with more and similar obligations—
Note:PERCHÈ AUMENTARE LE MIE PENE QUANDO C È GIÀ UN NANETTO

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Dogs make good guards,
Note:MOTIVAZIONI PRATICHE PER AVERE UN CANE

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They are fun to look

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less likely to get various immune system–related ailments, such as eczema

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And I want to make a broader case
Note:QUI L'UTILITARISMO PERO' NON CONTA

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I have one child, and let’s clear the air right up front: She is better than your child.
Note:UNA CERTEZZA

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“This one is mine.”
Note:I MARINES DELLA LORO PISTOLA

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my greatest concession to relativism.

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an assertion I make in defiance of mere reason
Note:I LIMITI DELLA RAGIONE...SFIDA ALL ALTRUISMO EFFICIENTE

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support of unprovable dogma

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If you told me that you like my kid more than you like your own kid,
Note:VI CONSIDERO FOLLI

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the collective ownership of kids.
Note:PLATONE ROBERSPIERRE HITLER

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“We have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents
Note:IDEA RECENTE

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Melissa Harris-Perry

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believing that there isn’t really any such thing as someone else’s child.”
Note:CLINTON

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One can simply argue on empirical grounds that this is a really stupid idea.
Note:LA RISPOSTA MIGLIORE

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“Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.”
Note:KANT...SARÀ SBEGLIATO MA...

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you can’t organize a healthy civilization
Note:SU ASTRAZIONI

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Friedrich Hayek’s “knowledge problem.”
Note:DECENTRALIZZARE...OGNI PROP DECIDE MEGLIO

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“My educational policies are based on the fact that I care more about my children than you do,”
Note:LA BASE EDUCATIVA

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“Okay, what are their names?”
Note:LA RISPOSTA A CHI DICE NO

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dogs are not children. Yet they are members of the family.
Note:CHI È UN CANE

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it is true as a matter of popular opinion.

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54 percent of pet owners consider themselves “pet parents” rather than “pet owners.”
Note:GENOTORI PIÙ CHE PROP

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evolution and psychology are also on my side.
Note:NN C È SOLO L OPINIONE DELLA GENTE

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For complicated reasons lost to prehistory, humans and some lupine dog precursor worked out a businesslike
Note:DA SEMPRE INSIEME

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Like many relationships that start out as just business, friendships were formed.
Note:DAGLI AFFARI ALL AMORE

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They claim that dogs are really “social parasites”
Note:PER L EVOLUZIONISTA DURO E PURO È TUTTA IPOCRISIA

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You can apply the same crude reductionism to children and wives.
Note:SE FOSSE COSÌ

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But there’s simply no evidence of this. I’ve watched my dogs closely over the years.
Note:CONFUTAZIONE

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The joy you see is the joy you feel.
Note:INTROSPEZIONE

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who loves you more, your dog or your wife.
Note:CHI TI FA PIÙ FESTE QUANDO ESCE DALLA AITO?

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Cosmo was our trial-run baby.
Note:CANE...BIMBO IN PROVA

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the closest we can get

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You can leave a cat alone in your house for days as long as there’s enough food left out. And when you return, they’ll barely notice.
Note:IL GATTO

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active ownership.
Note:COSA RICHIEDE UJN CANE

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ownership is probably the wrong word

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stewardship than ownership.

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the dog also owns you.
Note:Reciproco

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dogs are an antidote to all forms of totalitarian thinking. Our connection to them cannot be politicized.
Note:IL PREPOLITICO CONTA...DESTRA

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Being a good parent requires caring about politics, teaching them about the polis. Dogs keep their innocent doggy goodness from kennel to grave,
Note:DIFFERENZE POLITICHE

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doggy innocence can be wonderfully helpful in the moral
Note:INNOCENZA

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some bonds are stronger and more deeply felt than those that can be described by politics or the ephemeral pieties of a given moment.
Note:LE PRIOROTÀ NEGLI AFFETTI

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Dogs inculcate a sense of rightly-ordered priorities.

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few of us would put religion ahead of our children’s well-being. Thank God—literally—such requests are vanishingly rare these days.)
Note:ANCHE LA RELIGIONE VIENE DOPO

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the trauma of losing a dog is one of those cruel realities that can be hard to impose on a child at an early age. But that’s the point. Life happens, and children need to learn
Note:IL TRAUMA

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They learn that there are many dogs in the world, but this one is ours
Note:L INSEGNAMENTO

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One must obey the rules of the macrocosm. But the first law of the microcosm is that our love is greater, more real, and more enduring than anything that can be quantified by mere reason.
Note:CONTRO LA RAGIONE

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There are no Democratic dogs, no Republican hounds.
Note:PREPOLITICO

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“A fat man got out of a van with a bunch of dogs, and Cosmo ran up to him and was all buddy-buddy with the fat man. He let him pet him.” “So what?” I asked. “The fat man was Ted Kennedy.”

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“The fat man was Ted Kennedy.”
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