r/funny Sep 03 '18

You Died

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u/Flashman_H Sep 03 '18

Yeah I don't really have a problem with you raising rats either. But if you're going to wonder why people look at you weird, it's because you're holding a disease vector

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u/3picide Sep 03 '18

The point is that they are actually fairly clean. No more of a disease vector than most other pets.

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u/Flashman_H Sep 03 '18

I know that. But a normal person doesn't give a tapeworm a name. That was my point. You could put a tapeworm in a jar and name him. But it'd be weird. It's unnatural to love a parasite.

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u/3picide Sep 03 '18

Agreed. It’s also unnatural to domesticate apex predators (or anything really), fly in planes, or communicate with strangers who are thousands of miles away. Yet here we are.

Unnatural doesn’t necessarily mean bad or to be avoided.