Nope, not when a perfectly healthy happy good dog is put down because the owner find it best, or when an animal shelter put down animals they can’t find homes for, or when a Zoo put down young animals, because their cuteness has been expended, and the zoo doesn’t want more grown animals.
In all these cases there is absolutely no reason to think the animal wants to die. So it is not about communication, it’s because an animal is a thing you can own and do with what you want, as long as it isn’t too cruel.

True.

OK then you are more progressed than we are here in Denmark.

But our neighbor did exactly what I wrote, in her defense she was dying of cancer, but we and another family she knew both offered to adopt the dog, the dog was very fond of both of us, my wife walked it daily, and when we visited, the dog would jump on the couch and lie across my lap, which it did for nobody else. But she went ahead and had the dog put down anyway. Perfectly legal as it is done humanely. My wife actually has trauma about the incident, because the vet came to her house, and my wife was there for support, and when my wife found the leash to hold him, he was so filled with joy because he thought they were going for a walk, but it was only to hold him while he was injected.

So here you can have perfectly healthy happy good dogs put down, even when 2 families were ready to adopt it.
Her reason for doing it was that she didn’t want the dog to miss her after she died.

I had to keep convincing the vet it was a danger to have. It wasn’t an easy process.

If it wasn’t your dog, you are not the one to decide, obviously your dad having dementia means he isn’t fit to make the decision. You did well in this case. And I think the doctor was acting according to regulation.

But when you actually are the owner, it’s a very different story, and our neighbor did exactly what I wrote, in her defense she was dying of cancer, but we and another family she knew both offered to adopt the dog, the dog was very fond of both of us, my wife walked it daily, and when we visited, the dog would jump on the couch and lie across my lap, which it did for nobody else. But she went ahead and had the dog put down anyway. Perfectly legal as it is done humanely.
My wife actually has trauma about the incident, because the vet came to her house, and my wife was there for support, and when my wife found the leash to hold him, he was so filled with joy because he thought they were going for a walk, but it was only to hold him while he was injected.

So yes you can have perfectly healthy happy good dogs put down, you don’t even have to give a reason. They also do it at rescue shelters all the time.

Oh for fucks sake, it is not allowed to be the decision of others, only the person that wants it, and only under certain circumstances, like being terminally ill and in pain.

Anymore

Exactly, and when you could, it was also allowed to beat them to death, as long as they didn’t die immediately, but it took a day or two. Those are the rules of the bible.

You cannot put a person down for being sick. Even in countries where euthanasia is allowed, the person has to ask for it, under formal circumstances following formal rules.

It’s actually way worse, because you can have a dog put down that is perfectly healthy, even when other people want to adopt the dog.
If you have a dog you literally own it, and the only regulation that protects the dog are rules against animal cruelty.
You cannot own a human being.

Yes, thank you.

Yes you are probably right, weird that they didn’t write that in the text.

Weird that in one photo the stop marking is in negative, and the next photo the stop marking is white?
Seems to me like the photos aren’t trustworthy. Which again cast doubt on the whole story.

6 months of the year, homeless people would freeze to death

True, but that does surprisingly little to prevent homelessness.
In Nordic countries homelessness is mostly due to mental illness and drug abuse.
In USA you can end up homeless because you got just a little bit unlucky, and got sick and lost your job, and can’t pay even the basic bills. By a little bit unlucky, I mean it may be very bad in USA, but here we at least have healthcare for all, and we have regulation that ensures we get paid during sick leave.

Finland has actually tried to do something about it, contrary to USA where homelessness is borderline illegal, and the main policy against it is harassment to make them go somewhere else. Finland is a civilized society, USA is a sociopathic society.

That said, homelessness is a challenge, but Finland has a program they call “housing first” to help prevent it, that has turned out to work better than what most countries do.

Stand your ground, 3 times and you’re out, non livable wages, enormous wealth disparity, racism, death penalty.
All these feed violence, and all these are extreme right wing policies.

Where I live (Denmark) very very near zero. A burglar (disregarding color), breaking into a rich mans house would also be near zero risk of getting shot by police.

Yes I do, it seems to me Linux is beginning to grow a bit faster than it used to.
Desktop use is of course declining, so it will be a larger share of a smaller market.
But enthusiasts have seen Linux as the better options for decades now, and gamers are coming over too, and use cases that require optimal security, and even some workstation tasks are done better on Linux because Linux has a superior kernel for multi threading.

But it will take some time, probably at least 10 years.

Weird thing to say after spending so much time and effort telling me how doing what I like is wrong and unpopular,

I have no idea what your problem is? I never claimed in any way it is wrong, I also showed that it used to be way more popular than it is today.
I just state the reasons I think it kind of fell out of fashion.

but thanks for the permission, I guess

It is not a permission, that wouldn’t make any sense whatsoever. On the contrary it’s an acknowledgement of you not just following the mainstream but doing what you like.

I have no idea why you would be butthurt about any of this?

I suppose you mean “minus” instead of minutes.
I suspected something of that sort. Back then using teaspoons was considered somewhat casual.
And now you find the old ways kind of neat. Yes the old cake fork has a slight advantage in that it can be used as a fork, and it typically has an edge to “cut” if it’s a proper one. But in reality those “advantages” don’t really matter, at least not for most people.
A cake can be cut with a teaspoon just as well, and for most cakes the fork function doesn’t really work, and in my experience the fork is used as a spoon anyway.

But hey, have fun. Do what you like. 😀

I must have missed that memo

Maybe you are not old enough, such things used to be way more important half a century ago.

A small fork is generally considered the “correct” cutlery for cake in Denmark.
Obviously a teaspoon serves the purpose just as well, and those are standard to have.
And we are not a pretentious people, so many don’t even have the forks. Since they are pretty useless for anything else. So the small forks are basically superfluous.

Seems to me their only purpose is etiquette, and most Danes don’t really appreciate that when it has no purpose than the etiquette itself.