I understand your major point but, first off, although it doesn't happen on this page often, commentary is one of the options here. I think the discussion here has been healthy for the most part.
Your last comment I don't quite agree with, however. I think that just by the fact that the first person to complain about Simo's commentary was only jumping up to say "Hey! I'm a zoophile and I resent being insulted" and at least one or two other posters here trying with all their might to justify this practice. I'm betting that there's at least one, maybe more of the six or seven folks total replying here that DO practice this. This is not a representative sample of furry, but the percentage is way too high for my personal taste.
If you don't believe that there are people actively practicing bestiality trying to hide within furry, why is it that I can go on a major furry server or go to fursearch and find "how-to" instructions for this practice. This tells me some of them are not only using this fandom for a cover, but encouraging others to do it.
The language you choose is rather offensive, but I believe that you are also correct on why some choose to be sympathetic to this behavior. You are spot on about the overall social acceptance. But what I would argue is that, social acceptance aside, because some furs fantasize about a talking, intelligent creature and its primary attractiveness is the human sexual characteristics presented, this is a fantasy/fetish of human sexuality (human/fantasy human). After all you are talking about a "dog with (human) breasts" and not pictures from Encyclopedia Britannica.
Not to mention that until an actual talking, thinking, human/animal type creature exists in the real world, this is all just make believe stuff. This is completely different from an actual, real world act of violence against an animal. My point being, whatever your opinion of the social value of the "yiffy" art or "plush" or "fursuit sex" or whatever crowd, any member of that group is still justified in saying to the bestialist-zoophiles "I don't want you here, go away" because their "world" is a fantasy world and when practiced in private only affects them, instead of a suffering animal.
Trickster,
I understand your major point but, first off, although it doesn't happen on this page often, commentary is one of the options here. I think the discussion here has been healthy for the most part.
Your last comment I don't quite agree with, however. I think that just by the fact that the first person to complain about Simo's commentary was only jumping up to say "Hey! I'm a zoophile and I resent being insulted" and at least one or two other posters here trying with all their might to justify this practice. I'm betting that there's at least one, maybe more of the six or seven folks total replying here that DO practice this. This is not a representative sample of furry, but the percentage is way too high for my personal taste.
If you don't believe that there are people actively practicing bestiality trying to hide within furry, why is it that I can go on a major furry server or go to fursearch and find "how-to" instructions for this practice. This tells me some of them are not only using this fandom for a cover, but encouraging others to do it.
The language you choose is rather offensive, but I believe that you are also correct on why some choose to be sympathetic to this behavior. You are spot on about the overall social acceptance. But what I would argue is that, social acceptance aside, because some furs fantasize about a talking, intelligent creature and its primary attractiveness is the human sexual characteristics presented, this is a fantasy/fetish of human sexuality (human/fantasy human). After all you are talking about a "dog with (human) breasts" and not pictures from Encyclopedia Britannica.
Not to mention that until an actual talking, thinking, human/animal type creature exists in the real world, this is all just make believe stuff. This is completely different from an actual, real world act of violence against an animal. My point being, whatever your opinion of the social value of the "yiffy" art or "plush" or "fursuit sex" or whatever crowd, any member of that group is still justified in saying to the bestialist-zoophiles "I don't want you here, go away" because their "world" is a fantasy world and when practiced in private only affects them, instead of a suffering animal.