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Humans can easily develop an emotional attachment to any living creature they care for, even things that aren't alive. Acting as if someone's emotional attachment to a creature is somehow invalid because it's not a creature people care about as often seems like more of the troll move here.

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I’m totally on board with people loving their pets or anything else in the world important to them.

But the OPs comment was, to me at least, as absurd as if I said to someone “I don’t think you should worry so much about saving your daughter’s life. When I lost my dog, I was sad, but I got over it.”

These are not in the same category to most people, and you can’t assume your experience of losing a dog gives you insight into losing a child. Same goes with dog -> goldfish.

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