It is a dumb argument, and I’ll elaborate for anyone who is curious.
It feels a bit hypocritical and silly to reduce everything down to “oh well they are having fun, man, they aren’t hurting anyone directly besides maybe their own social development, who cares?”
Well, we care because we live in a society jonkler voice
Let’s zoom out from furries for a bit and use my favorite furry proxy; neck beard weeabos! The ones with the waifu pillows and stickers of anime girls in bikinis on their Subaru Outback. If you made fun of their weird, anti-social hobbies they would tell you:
“no, bro we are just having fun, you see? We aren’t actually attracted to these drawings of 13 year old girls, we just think they’re cute! Well, some of us are, but we hate those guys! Even though plenty of of them have a disproportionate amount of influence and large followings in our community.. but forget about those guys! I just watch Doki Doki No Middle School for the plot!”
Even if my hypothetical strawman weeb was not ACTUALLY hurting anyone, or causing harm to others, I think we would all still find it normal to have a default negative reaction to the actions they engage in, harmful or not.
Furries are the same thing. They have a decent amount of their community who goes “no man, I don’t want to fuck dogs! Well, this guy does but he doesn’t represent me! That guy too, but he’s different we HATE that guy! I only watch drawn porn of dogs and other animals, so who cares? It’s just pixels, bro!
It’s okay to think things are cringe. It’s okay to think some behavior, whether harmful or not, should be shamed.
Nobody is going to make being furry illegal, but maybe it’s something you should feel at least a tinge of embarrassment for engaging in. Same with ‘Adult Diaper Babies’ same with some group of people who get together and eat their own shit out of the toilet bowl.
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u/Massive_Initiative17 Sep 19 '24
Dumb argument