• 1984@lemmy.today
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    8 months ago

    I understand you come from a place of wanting cats to not be hurt, but I think humans don’t have the moral right to do that to them. We think we help them, but isn’t it the same as if we would neuter fellow humans because we think they are aggressive?

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      8 months ago

      I understand what you mean. I always feel guilty having an animal neutered, or spayed, but when it’s your animal and you can’t afford to have them litter, it’s another story. I once adopted a cat that as already pregnant with a litter of kittens that died in utero. I told the vet to just spay her after that. My fiancé, at the time, felt so bad that he went out to a rescue and bought a kitten to keep her company while we both worked during the day. It probably didn’t make it up to her entirely. I get that.

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        8 months ago

        Yeah. I understand… I wish humans would always have enough money to not be forced into things they don’t want to do. Specially since money is just a made up concept, like monopoly money. But we all are forced to gather this resource that is not limited by nature at all. It’s just limited so our own human economic systems won’t break down.

        So much things are based on money and it’s not even a real limitation by the real world.