this dog pants meme is asking the ontological questions about pants.
are pants, in essence, a garment that covers the genitals and posterior, as well as the lower, back, or bottom limbs? or a garment that simply covers the lower, back, or bottom portion of the body? or a garment to cover the legs, and the rest is incidental?
are assless chaps a form of pants? if we say no, then we are confirming that the purpose of pants is modesty and other functions are secondary, not essential to pantsness. however, if we say yes, it could be that pants are essentially a leg covering. Butâit could also be the case that the real requirement for pants is a resemblance to an agreed-upon idea of pants, that pants foremost must be recognizable as pants.
if there was a creature, imagine an upright slug, with only one âleg,â could it ever have fitted pants? would a garment for this creature ever be called pants, or would it always be a skirt? what if efforts were made to increase the resemblance to human pants, adding a belt and fly and so on?
are a dogs forelegs the equivalent of arms? if yes, we should not cover them with âpants.â if no, then failing to cover them would be strange.
is it a mistake to universalize the definition of pants? since dogs have no need for modesty, then it may be that modesty is only an essential element of human pants. instead of fundamentally defining âpants,â should we seek to fundamentally define âdog pantsâ?
dogs could only be expected to wear pants for warmth or to resemble a human person. if a dog wears pants to resemble a human, then it could only ever wear pants in the way that would be most anthropomorphic.
if a dog wore pants for warmth, it might wear pants to cover all four legs. that would make it more difficult to cover the rest of the body with another garment, like a shirt, but one can imagine a dog would choose to wear as few garments as possible.
why should a dog wear pants? instead of attempting to guess how a dog would wear human clothes, should we not imagine âdog clothesâ? a garment which a dog can put on itself without opposable thumbs, which covers the body for warmth but does not prevent the dog from urinating (or otherwise) when it pleases?
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