Surrounded by 8 pit pulls today, I barely escaped with my life

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race of dogs, but they are the same species, but differ in size, color, and appearance. We are all of the human species, but we differ in size, color and appearance. If I look at a different race of person, is it right to think that entire race of people are bad because a small percentage have done bad things? Of course not. Am I to assume because serial killers are profiled as being normally white males that means ALL white males are evil?

Personalities of different races of people vary highly too. No race of people all behave exactly the same. So you see a pit bull and assume it's dangerous even though you know absolutely nothing about that individual dog? They are not carbon copies either. Their owners have a significant role in molding them, some exceptions can occur but the buck stops with the owner in the vast majority of problem pit bull cases. However the vast majority of pit bulls in general are not vicious evil dogs.

I see discrimination in any form with people, whether it's about color, creed, sex or sexual orientation to be abhorrent. To lynch an entire breed of dog and claim they are all the same is no different to me. I'm not trying to lessen racism involving people by comparing the two, of course people in the past have suffered greatly over this type of ignorance. However when this type of ignorance causes a city to ban an entire breed of dog based on the ignorant assumption that they are all the same, that should not be acceptable for man nor beast. Denver put down so many pit bulls because of their ban, taking them away from their families even though the dogs had no history of aggression whatsoever, not even a single complaint about barking, much less aggressive behavior. It's, I'm sorry to say, BS.

As I said, others disagree and that's fine. I'm only explaining why I feel that way personally. I don't expect a lot of people to agree but I hold animals in higher regard than maybe most who would disagree. That's just how I was raised, to be kind to both man and animal. The difference is man should know better on how to treat others.