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emma wrote (edited )

You're presenting a very shallow picture of a cat's desires, which you simply cannot claim to know exhaustively or indeed, at all, because... well you're not them and you can't look into their brain. Doesn't mean we can make inferences from their behavior, but even then your list falls short.

Until it's proven that cats understand unjust hierarchy and such, I'm just going to assume cats are more or less what they seem: simple creatures that eat, sleep and hump things, with relatively complex emotional needs, and just enough cognitive ability to figure out that doors are hinged and climbing on furniture gets their humans' attentions. The concerns about authority and ownership are fundamentally beyond their understanding, and raising them on behalf of cats just comes across as some weird drive towards moral purity in the face of other anarchists who are equally lacking in sense of perspective and realistic expectations of cats' anti-authoritarian leanings.

And as I said, in my experience cats do care about being kept inside, since the ones I've lived with cried in front of the door to be let out and often tried to escape when they got the chance

This means very little, sorry to say. We have neighbour cats that will do this when they want to be let inside. It's not in any way indicative of some desire for autonomy or free roam, they're just trying to get food lol.

And even if they didn't care, because maybe all they've ever known is inside, that still doesn't mean that it's okay to keep them inside, is it? Imagine keeping a human inside from birth, and then claiming it's okay because they don't care about being kept inside.

And here you do the "what if you did this to a human" thing again. Amazing.

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