This is a visual argument if used properly because in essence, it's a sad puppy. Its eyes are those big, pleading, wanting eyes that call for immediate adoption. The fact that it's a puppy makes it even more pity inviting because it makes it seem more innocent and helpless. Its stance contributes to the idea because it's pressing agianst the bars, almost pushing to get out of its little box. This image just calls for you to come and scoop it up in your arms and snuggle it up to your face until you finally feel that the moral wound inflicted upon you by this puppies eyes has been healed. Then this puppy is just an annoying pooping machine.
No! Sad puppies make me sad! I can't stand sad puppies!
ReplyDeleteIn Vegas, the homeless lining the strip use sad puppies to get more money from passersby; this says a lot about human behavior, how we justify blame on the victims to deal with sadness; it says a lot about MY moral compass, because I considered stealing a puppy from a homeless person and smuggling it back on the plane.
Puppies persuade! Oh, bathos.