• fosho@lemmy.ca
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    9 months ago

    after finding it quite surprising that folks here feel so strongly about forcing such a depressing life on highly independent creatures, I decided to look for the evidence myself.

    sure enough, it’s not as clear as you all think. one of the problems with the research is that it is incorrectly applied to all environments without merit. and the biggest issue of all is that most of the problem is caused by feral cats.

    so no, your absolute position that all cats must be indoors only is not fully supported by evidence. furthermore it is alarming how quick people are to impose their beliefs on other creatures with only a small amount of reason.

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      9 months ago

      If you don’t enforce indoor only cats with high precision then feral cats exist everywhere as a result.

      Literally no environment benefits from thousands of fucking cats.

      You will look for any excuse to avoid the guilt of our failures as a species.

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        9 months ago

        owning pets isn’t about maximizing environmental benefits. your own existence is a much larger problem for that but no one is telling you to live your entire life in a boring box because we have too many humans. this hill is not important enough to warrant all you folks dying on it.

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          9 months ago

          If some people can’t minimize harm to the environment (and as a result, harm done to countless other people) then those people need their rights restricted. That’s the fundamental nature of laws: if you fuck it up for the rest of us then we’re going to have to step in.

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            9 months ago

            which apparently doesn’t extend to harming cats by way of imprisonment.