Pets and Animal Lovers: Why do (many of us) speak in baby-talk or some sort of pidgen speach to our pets?
I figure if brain-transplants or genetic upgrades ever give them the ability to talk, I don’t want them spewing all that baby-talk drivel back at me! If talking pets ever became fasionable, most owners would get the poetic justice that they deserve. I read a lot of science fiction, and I believe, although it may not happen in our lifetime, this sort of “designer pet” is inevitable, with all the moral and social quandaries that will entail. At first, only celebrities will be able to afford talking mammals, then after a while, they won’t cost much more than a talking bird… “Get Fuzzy,” here we come!
I figure if brain-transplants or genetic upgrades ever give them the ability to talk, I don’t want them spewing all that baby-talk drivel back at me! If talking pets ever became fasionable, most owners would get the poetic justice that they deserve. I read a lot of science fiction, and I believe, although it may not happen in our lifetime, this sort of “designer pet” is inevitable, with all the moral and social quandaries that will entail. At first, only celebrities will be able to afford talking mammals, then after a while, they won’t cost much more than a talking bird… “Get Fuzzy,” here we come! [In case you haven’t heard, it’s an excellent comic strip…
