#I think I forgot to explain the hoof maintenance/horn trimming connection

[jestiamy]

I like mentally equating haircutting in humans are space orcs aus to those hoof maintenance/horn trimming videos that get like. at least ten comments each time going "???? so are we going to ignore the literal animal torture happening here??"

#like it looks really bad to us but this is not a harmful process (if done right) and is. very helpful to the animals in question actually #I've seen the “aliens think cutting hair is like insanely painful” thing before but I don't think I've seen an elaboration on. why. #like. fur sheds??? if there's fuzzy aliens or whatever it has to be atleast somewhat known this occurs #I can understand like. a scaled alien equating this to something like a violent ripping off of skin or something #but I. struggle to imagine an alien with fur coming to a similar conclusion #so I like to imagine hair cutting is only perceived as painful because the method itself to do it is seen as unnecessarily violent #like. why are you doing that??? your head fur should just fall out when it's ready to?? you're going to damage your coat??? #and even then it's probably more of like. if you saw someone use a chainsaw to cut their nails. kind of reaction. #it's more. this is violent and potentially extremely painful and also there are better ways to do this specific thing. #saying stuff #i think. #humans are space orcs #I think I forgot to explain the hoof maintenance/horn trimming connection #basically it's like. logically yeah this looks better but it's seen as painful/even if you know this helps them it seems like it hurts