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I honestly don’t feel like I’m a bad person because of it. My siblings seem to like animals though we all grew up without pets (other than fish a few years ago). I would never harm animals myself but we already harm them by partaking in the food industry.
For me, I don’t care about cats and dogs that are objectively cute, they just exist and as long as they don’t poop in my garden then I ignore them. My partner is the opposite, he grew up with pets and has a cat currently. He goes pspspsp at random cats on the street, when I just want to keep walking. He loves to stroke them and such and I just can’t see the appeal, and yes I’ve stroked cats before. I don’t get anything out of it. He wants a dog one day and I wouldn’t mind that, I would help take care of it etc but I don’t know if I would ‘love’ it the same way he would.
To many people I probably sound cold and heartless but I just can’t bring myself to care, because I think humans are more important. When I see homeless people I always feel extremely bad for them. When I hear of horrible things happening to people, some of which are inflicted by other humans, I feel for them. Even though I don’t want my own children, I still feel plenty of compassion for all kids I see and I can find them cute. I just feel none of that for animals.
I would never hurt or be intentionally cruel to animals FYI. I just don’t care if someone shows me their cat’s litter of kittens or new tricks their dog learned. I think maybe my feelings would change if I had my own dog or something because people say dogs are always happy, loyal and energetic. But I think it’s pretty selfish to only love what an animal can do for me/how they would make me feel. I understand this is a very unpopular position, so much so that there are like no results online. All in all I think I’m not a bad person for this view
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For me, I don’t care about cats and dogs that are objectively cute, they just exist and as long as they don’t poop in my garden then I ignore them. My partner is the opposite, he grew up with pets and has a cat currently. He goes pspspsp at random cats on the street, when I just want to keep walking. He loves to stroke them and such and I just can’t see the appeal, and yes I’ve stroked cats before. I don’t get anything out of it. He wants a dog one day and I wouldn’t mind that, I would help take care of it etc but I don’t know if I would ‘love’ it the same way he would.
To many people I probably sound cold and heartless but I just can’t bring myself to care, because I think humans are more important. When I see homeless people I always feel extremely bad for them. When I hear of horrible things happening to people, some of which are inflicted by other humans, I feel for them. Even though I don’t want my own children, I still feel plenty of compassion for all kids I see and I can find them cute. I just feel none of that for animals.
I would never hurt or be intentionally cruel to animals FYI. I just don’t care if someone shows me their cat’s litter of kittens or new tricks their dog learned. I think maybe my feelings would change if I had my own dog or something because people say dogs are always happy, loyal and energetic. But I think it’s pretty selfish to only love what an animal can do for me/how they would make me feel. I understand this is a very unpopular position, so much so that there are like no results online. All in all I think I’m not a bad person for this view
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