Intentions of BSL Breed-Specific Legislation is the result of a couple factors that led to the belief that we have a need to enact laws against certain dog breeds. One of the common driving forces for the creation of BSL is …show more content…
Burstein relates BSL to racial human laws, commenting on the fact that citizens would not stand for similar blatant prejudice against another group of human beings, and he reflects on why this shouldn’t be any different for canines (2004). He thinks that the negative attitudes towards the breeds implicated with BSL are a result of the same type of narrow mindedness that lead to racism (Burstein, 2004). BSL can be considered prejudice for several reasons, notably with its subjective assumptions towards the fact that the specified breeds are the only ones to harbor aggression (Abordo, 2010). Bandow asserts that the anatomical characteristics of a canine breed provide no indication of the behavior of an individual dog and he comments that biting is a instinctual behavior for all dogs