u/serenaTcat

So, r/petfree is the whingy sibling to r/childfree who all seem to believe that pets are the scum of the earth. Here's the thing. At least with the latter, there is legitimately a good reason for its existence. There is massive societal pressure, particularly on women, to have children, which can be an absolute nightmare for a lot of people. I understand that.
There is literally 0 pressure to have pets.
Therefore, the brunt of this subreddit is composed of people seeming to believe the small percentage of the pets and pet owners who behave poorly are representative of the entire species. This is mainly because most well adjusted people who dislike pets don't do so to the degree that they feel the need to join a subreddit dedicated to disliking them, so you only get the true bottom of the barrel. The fact that this subreddit is clearly an echo chamber, not allowing ANY opinion other than "I dislike pets" doesn't help matters either.
More importantly, some of the stuff they post is either blatant abuse or calling for it. One of the top videos is of a guy on a bike chasing a dog for nearly 2 minutes because it barked at him. Almost every video of a dog misbehaving is almost guaranteed to feature calls for said dog to be put down. And god forbid you point any of this out, because as I said earlier you shall not question the norm lest you be executed for it.
I guess the conclusion to draw regarding this is that echo chambers suck. But this echo chamber sucks to a ban-worthy degree.

all because i told him bbc jokes aren't funny. jesus christ