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Because if they get outside they’ll get killed by a car and/or fuck up the environment
Pets SHOULDN’T exist, but that isn’t fixable by having individuals throw “their” animals outside, it doesn’t fix anything and causes more suffering
So I’m not “against pets” any more than someone is “against food” because they got it from a capitalist grocery store
Oh I'm not saying pets should all be euthanized immediately or anything, just that the pet and pet-breeding industry should be phased out with the goal of animals existing almost solely in the wild in the future.
Dogs have co-evolved to live and cooperate with humans for 40,000 years. Hanging out with us all the time is their natural environment, it is their "wilderness". Though i should also point out that you're committing the naturalistic fallacy, ie what is natural (malnutrition, mange, horrible parasite load, being killed by predators, dying due to untreated illness and injurt, being mauled by other dogs, freezing to death, bad water, scavenging carcasses, etc) is good. The concepts of "nature" and "wilderness" are also problematic; for one, dogs and cats are not wild animals. They arr domesticated. They have coevolved with humans to live in human environments under human care.
"Wild" is a problematic concept at best. Wilderness" as popularly conceived of in the west is mostly a racist construction that serves to erase the presence and history of indigenous people. There is not and never has been a "wild" separate from the human domain. We"ve been everywhere on earth for tens of thousands of years. Much of the face of the earth has been influenced and often heavily influenced by human habitation.
Dogs don't share some abstracted notion of freedom and independence with settler brained american libertarians. They're dogs. They want to hang out with humans who treat them well. That's their whole thing. They're fully, completely domesticated, which i suspect many "having pets is immoral" people don't fully comprehend. Frankly I think it's a misapprehension of city people who haven't really spent much time in truly wild places where the wildlife has not acclimated to human presence the way it has in most of America and Europe.
Regardless, this abstract, idealistic notion that dogs "lack agency" is not materialist. It's also not a very strong argument from an idealistic perspective. Most of the time, being domesticated rather than wild animals, feral dogs suffer even shorter, more violent, more miserable lives than wild animals that are at least adapted to their environments. This is because they are dependent on cooperation with humans for their wellbeing. Domestication has made them more playful, less aggressive, much less shy and suspicious and cautious, much more social, given them the nearly unique abilitiy to recognize human gestures and body language, and so forth. Contrast this with wolves, which are genetically speaking a very similar species, and the massive differences in behavior, physical structure, and psychology are stark and impossible to explain away.
Dogs cannot survive and thrive without us (and I'd argue humans are equally lost and miserable without dogs). They have no place in the world except alongside humans. Whatever assertion you're making, what you're defacto asking for is the destruction of the entire species because their mere existence doesn't conform to your idealist notions of agency and independence.
See, this is the point I was going for. Dogs are domesticated, they simply do not have the same desire for freedom and self-determination humans have. We have established that non-human living beings can have different desires than humans.
So what the hell are half the comments in this thread babbling about?
Dogs cannot survive and thrive without us
People in this thread are acting like statements like these are slavery apologia but slaves are humans, animals simply aren't. Tying it back to the original topic of the thread, is it so inconceivable that Pokemon could enjoy having a trainer raise them and battling against other Pokemon? Pokemon are analogous to animals in the setting, often literally kept as pets and are frequently stated to actively enjoy fighting each other. I mean, my dog loves playfighting with other dogs. I feel like people are trying really hard to see this franchise for 6-year-olds in the most cynical way possible purely for the sake of "popular treats are actually bad and dumb".
Is it bait if its baiting but I also unironically believe it?
if your ideology is making bait you should shut the fuck up
On one hand, I agree, on the other hand, I think forcing people to live without a cat is some kind of war crime
If you love cats, let them go
You're advocating for the eradication of birds and small mammals currently.
outdoor cats live miserable lives. if you love something you don't damn it to a short life of brutality and disease
no, the cats will be mine
I mean this doesn’t make it not a war crime, regardless of if it’s the right thing to do