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walker | 2 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +5 
 Fuck… 

Also makes one wonder: perhaps the woman DID want to euthanize her dog, and just needed an external voice to tell her it was OK…

OR… people are so incapable of making difficult decisions on their own that they will relinquish their agency quite easily, even if they do not like the outcome. 

Idk…

Fuck.
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Adeptus | 2 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 The "banality of evil."
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HODL | 2 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +4 
 From the dogs perspective this was basically the Stanford prison experiment but real and administered by robots.

Terrifying.
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walker | 2 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +3 
 Yeah imagine if that dog was her depressed son and she lived in Canada…
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knoworiginality | 2 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Yeah.  What if her "dog" was code for Husband?