Dogs are not people, does anyone else find it weird how some seem to equate the two?

[Dragonfli]

290. They are acting on instinct. Cats are predators and born with instinctive hunting behaviors

Dogs are pack animals born with an instinct to protect the pack. We act on instinct as well at times as in the case of the drowning baby sociopaths are fond of invoking or the instinctive violent reaction towards one or many trying to kill oneself or one's family. It is not generally considered sociopathic to harm in self defense or even in the pursuit of hunting to survive.

IMO we have lost most of our connections to instinct, we also claim to be superior in the ability to use reason over instinct and make ethical and/or moral decisions based on our ability to reason. I choose not to hunt to survive (yes, that also means I don't have butchers kill for me) because I can, I would not expect a child to make such decisions any more than cats.

I will admit that playing with one's food and not eating it as some cats do is a bit sociopathic, but I never claimed other animals were without their sociopaths, only that there are those among us that are sociopathic and one sign of a human sociopath is lack of empathy, often presenting in the form of cruelty to other animals but often hidden from fellow humans it has no empathy for but must be trusted by to survive around..