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Appreciate the deep-dive, though it certainly hasn't done anything for my utter disgust at being licked by them.
In case it wasn't clear, I wasn't trying to assign any sort of moral degeneracy to the dogs themselves. Rather, I believe we've warped their neural circuitry in ways that are cruel and maladaptive, much like we've done to the limbs and airways of certain breeds.
With the licking, you do need to be careful, it is understandable. Since dogs pretty much have the only way of cleaning themselves, their mouth may not be always as clean as one would prefer, and also a lot of owners neglect dental hygiene because it's impossible to teach the dog to brush their own teeth and floss, and they often dislike those procedures quite intensely, so it could be an expensive visit to a veterinarian to get their mouth in order. And dogs are as poorly evolutionary adapted to modern refined-sugar high-carbs diets as humans are. So being licked by a random strange dog is not always a good experience.
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