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• piccolo@sh.itjust.works ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Your family and friends must adore you.

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  • Dyskolos@lemmy.zip ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They actually do. Not that this is either anything of your concern nor the point. And guess what, friends are people i care about that I CHOSE TO. They didn’t get bought in a pet-shop and were forced to be in my vicinity, nor suddenly appeared in my house as strays. You maybe see the point somewhere there.

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    • KeenFlame@feddit.nu ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Newsflash: people choose to have cats too

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      • Dyskolos@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I don’t understand that either, I dislike slavery, i even pay our maid double because i feel bad she works for us. But it’s not like I’d force her to, like I’d force a pet to do so.

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    • piccolo@sh.itjust.works ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      My point?

      What benefit could i have from “caring for another being”? Me, personally? The other being, yes, maybe. But me? I could never care ADEQUATELY for any animal.

      Hypothetically, if someone that was very close to you was in a terrible accident at has become paralyzed and no longer capable of taking care of themselves. What benefit do you have in taking care of them. Will you just abandon them? I would hope you are not cold hearted as such. Obviously there is such benefit as companionship with another living creature. Im not judging you for not wanting a pet, i dont have one myself. But you are coming off very cold.

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      • Dyskolos@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        You must’ve totally misinterpreted. Of course I’d care for those close to me. Even without having any benefit for me. But those people I selected. They didn’t just wander into my house like a stray and decided my decisions. I actually work for free in my spare-time with abused people. Just because it’s a thing a civilized species should do, but sadly doesn’t.

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