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[–] 12 points 1 year ago

It really sucks being that person, though. The heart can only handle so much. Recently had a litter of kittens get abandoned near my house, and only one of them survived. It hurt so bad to watch the others struggle but ultimately not make it in the end.

Cat tax

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Which is another reason I like the latest Superman movie, its squirrel scene

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    I will never stop caring for the animals around me where I can. I owe them a debt I can never repay. People, though...

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago

    also, please don't eat them. otherwise you're really undoing all that kindness and then some.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    One step further, we need you to join the fight. We don't need people to aim a gun or dehumanize enemies, in fact we need the opposite. We need people to build a better world, and the powerful stay in power by keeping us separated so that they can take advantage of our talent. Many very well intentioned people lose themselves in the politics and in the struggle, in categories of enemies and threats, lose themselves in determination. We need those people too, and there's lots of work for them.

    But our empathy is a power that has kept the world from destroying itself for thousands of years, its been the connective tissue that stitches us together. It's time for the communicators, for the feelers, for those who are motivated by inaction to rise up, speak up, and find each other, find mentors, and be mentors. Not to put too fine a point on it, but we are our only hope.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago*

    image of text (lacking alt text) that could have been plain text
    breaks accessibility, search optimization, fault tolerance

    How about kindness considerate of those who can't read unnecessary images of text?

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  • Wow, as if i can't be both.

    I mean, i can't, but it's a possible thing to be.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    And make sure you go all the way and go vegan. Otherwise it's just hypocritical.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Is this witchy or is this Facebook leaking?

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    Harm per presence is actually looking pretty darn good compared to cars, not to mention other humans. And if looking at certain nations and cultures where "strays" are historically not seen as such, but as communal protectors, where people are culturally aware of how to treat and coexist with them, they're often if not widely regarded as a major net-benefit.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Learn some logic. And empathy, while you're at it...

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (3 children)

    I can use logic. And I know when empathy should be used. And to what extent. And when it shouldn’t at all.

    I'm suspecting that you're masking the usual dog hate as unusual rationality to legitimize it. don't want to presume, so let me ask you straight: How do you feel about traffic in residential areas? Just to make sure that you actually do allocate your attention to problems rationally, based eg on their severity.

    spoilerThere's also the mystery of how either of us, engineers that use logic, ended up in the "Witchy Memes" sub.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Feel? I don’t understand the question.

    Are you what your name implies you are? You feel a lot about dogs, and i'm asking how you feel about a far more severe problem regarding pollution, noise, and danger ("Just shit, noise and danger," your words) in cities, to see if there's hypocrisy in your very logical engineer's mind.

    Given the context, clearly i am asking about the danger traffic poses to pedestrians, especially the poor children you were bringing up earlier, and in very emotionally enriched wording ("They will tear a kid here and there."). Since you're logically concerned about safety, i was wondering if your very logical engineer's mind has a rational reason to be so emotionally fixated on dogs in particular ("make them feel like owners of the place." "Just shit, noise and danger."), and if it's all relative to the problems they actually pose compared to other things.

    Or again, if you're just talking out of your ass, and trying to legitimize the typical dog hate.

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  • [–] -3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Hitler would probably fall into this categorization, he really loved animals

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