Comment on Animals are not gifts.

umbraroze@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

One of my favourite tragicomical video game achievements was in Firewatch:

Adopted a turtle as a pet. The average lifespan of a box turtle is fifty years. It will outlive you.

And this is why I will not get a pet. I’m by definition incapable of taking care of them because they might outlive me.

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