Mr Kitten on Human Stupidity, Logical Fallacies, and the Black Death

If dogs can smell fear, cats can smell stupidity. -- Steve Warren

An Essay by Mr Kitten

Usually, I talk in LOLSpeak, my dialect, but today I shall speak in Standard American English. Mosly.

Today's topics are species-based persecution, the logical fallacy known as post hoc ergo proctor hoc, the Black Death, and the overall stupidity of the human race. Heady stuff for a cat, you say? Ah, the stupid begins already. You stoopy stereotypeing stoop.

Human Stupidity

Okay, there was this poor man who gotted bubonic plague, also known as the Black Death, after he took a mouse outta a cat's mouth.  

Some people say he was trying to rescue mouse and he very stupid. Some say the cat was choking on mouse and he was trying to save cat and that not stupid. 

I say all humans are stupid. All are stupid sometime and some are stupid alla time. Seriously, it's funny to watch you argue.

Okay, this section called Human Stupidity, and I talked about it here, but I not done because human stoopy is a theme that flows all through this essay, and out through the Internets to cover the globe and even infect part of space because humans are just  that stupid. 

Not all of you, but yeah, actually, all of you. Sorry. 

Case in point.

People always wanna blame cat

The man got so sick he went to the hospital. Bubonic plague treatable. But not so much when doctors treat him for Cat Scratch Fever instead of for bubonic plague. Holy Ted Nugent.

I mean, what? The National Institute of Health says Cat Scratch Fever is not even serious and usually doesn't need any treatment at all. People don't go to hospital for it. He really sick and they just assume Cat Scratch Fever because he was around a cat? 

Logical Fallacy

Now look at this headline: 

Man escapes death but faces losing fingers and toes after contracting BUBONIC PLAGUE from cat bite. UK Mirror.

This what peeps call post hoc ergo proctor hoc: He was bitten by a cat, then he got plague. So the cat bite must have caused the plague.

Here what Centers for Disease Control say an I kinna think they know better than dumb newspaper. Bubonic plague

is usually transmitted to humans by the bites of infected rodent fleas. Less common exposures include handling infected animal tissues (hunters, wildlife personnel), inhalation of infectious droplets from cats or dogs with plague, and rarely, contact with a pneumonic plague patient. CDC.

You see "cat bite" on that list? No. Flea bite and other stuffs yeah.  People always wanna blame cats. Stupid [EXPLETIVE DELETED] newspapers. Stupid [EXPLETIVE DELETED] doctors.

What are cats famous for? Killing mice and rats and letting civilization thrive. We are known for:

1. Controlling the rats that eat grain and would have made grain storage impossible and therefore cities impossible and therefore civilization impossible.

2. Controlling the rats that cause disease. Like bubonic plague. OMG, what a coincidence, we were just talking about bubonic plague. And rodents. It's like there's a connection between them.

What are rodents known for? Eating grain and causing plague. 

Okay, so now we got a newspaper story and there's a cat, a rodent and bubonic plague. And what does stupid newspaper peeps do? Blame the plague on the cat! [EXPLETIVE DELETED] [EXPLETIVE DELETED] [EXPLETIVE DELETED]

The Black Deaf

Now I talks pacifically about Black Deaf. You humans like post hoc ergo proctor hoc so much, check this out:

• 1232      Pope Gregory IX declares cats are infernal and everyone starts being mean to them in Europe. 
• 1352     25,000,000 Europeans have been killed by Black Deaf, which is caused by fleas, which live on rats, which are all totally like "Partaaay!" because everyone's all busy hating on the cats.
• 1484       Pope Innocent VII says cats are unholy.
• 1600's     Black Deaf come back again.

Conclusion


I'm tired of writing. Humans are stupid.

Links about cat persecution and the Black Deaf:

http://www.knowyourcat.info/lib/devilcats.htm
http://www.sfcdcp.com/plague.html
http://suite101.com/article/cats-and-the-black-plague-a58146
http://www.examiner.com/article/cats-myths-mysteries-and-weird-facts
http://www.stanleyresearch.org/dnn/LaboratoryofDevelopmentalNeurovirology/ToxoplasmosisSchizophreniaResearch/IAllaboutCats/tabid/173/Default.aspx

Sources:

http://www.knowyourcat.info/lib/devilcats.htm

http://www.sfcdcp.com/plague.html

http://suite101.com/article/cats-and-the-black-plague-a58146

http://www.examiner.com/article/cats-myths-mysteries-and-weird-facts

http://www.stanleyresearch.org/dnn/LaboratoryofDevelopmentalNeurovirology/ToxoplasmosisSchizophreniaResearch/IAllaboutCats/tabid/173/Default.aspx

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