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I'm sorry, what? Isn't pet ownership pretty universally distributed across all classes? We have a dog in the white house.
Not anymore.
- https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/bidens-dog-commander-lon...
Close to 60% of households with incomes of more than $80,000 a year have pets compared with 36% of households with incomes less than $20,000."
- https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2020/02/spending-on-p...
Here's another terrible opinion: pet owners have skewed the economy of veterinarianism such that farmers and livestock owners have trouble getting vets because they're too busy dealing with the guy on reddit the other day whining about how he spent $2000 on a credit card to save his pet rat. Supply is limited (much like doctors, only so many seats at vet schools), and demand for pet veterinarians outstrips it to the point that the one in the article was talking about having a half million in student debt.
You're making the world a worse place than it has to be. Your cat spread T. gondii everywhere, has decimated (or worse) local song bird populations, and your house smells.
Just because you're in the majority, doesn't mean you're in the right about this.
You think that person is a low life? You think that person is a caveman who should just die alone? You can't see a single reason that pure and unconditional love might be a good thing for some people? I hope you find some someday so you can understand they unadulterated joy and deep meaning of being alive on this planet, connected to other living things
I'm an adult. I'm supposed to give that sort of love, not receive it. That's one of the reasons I have children.
Receiving it is for children.
> You think that person is a low life? You think that person is a caveman who should just die alone?
I think they're someone who can't afford $150/month in pet food.
> I hope you find some someday so you can understand they unadulterated joy
Why would you hope that I'm unsalvageably childish?
Is that the source of everyone's dysfunction, wandering around whining about "deserving love"? How could I ever give love if I were so desperate to receive it? My life's far from sad. But all the sad people out there seem to agree with you with their whining about deserving love. Have you ever explored that connection?