Is your cat using you for resources or is it love?
First this is clearly not a serious post so for the people who love their cats please do not be insulted. This post is more to think about how the cat might think about us.
We know that cats are social animals. Cats really appreciate attention and like being given attention.
But what does a domesticated animal such as a cat gain from interacting with humans?
In the best case the cat does not just gain attention in the form of being given affection but the cat also gains shelter and food.
When most people think about their pets they position themselves as "owners" and in my opinion this is outdated and wrong.
These animals are our friends, our companions, and if that is the case then no one should own them.
Legal responsibility is another matter because a cat cannot go to court or understand human legal practices.
Conclusion - Does it really matter?
It might be true that cats are using us for food and shelter if we want to look at it that way. It can also be true that cats love us if we would like to look at it another way. This is a matter of which angle we want to look at things.
If cats are our friends and we love them then owning an animal is as ridiculous as owning a family member. They become not just like family but actual members of our family.
And people gain from providing the food and shelter to their cats. The person gains a friend, an animal to cuddle with, to connect emotionally with, to spend their love on.
In the end it might but be an "either or" question but both your cat loves you and is using you for resources.
if it is a Schroedinger cat it will love you and not love you for one and a same thing so totally 4 options. If we include the dead/alive pair ... more.
I wonder what some others think of this question. @ned ? @karov ?
A certain person may look at animal behavior from a certain perspective and they might be right when interpreting it from their perspective. But then another person could also be right when interpreting it from their perspective. There isn't a known global perspective so we have subjective interpretation of intent.
So it's not really about being right but about how people choose to interpret intentions. It's even about asking the question of whether intentions even matter? Do we know exactly the intentions of the cat? Not without reading the mind of the cat. If we knew the intentions of the cat wasn't what we wanted them to be would we not love the cat anymore?
I have to again emphasize on the fact that 'think', 'conscious', 'choice', 'opinion' are VAAASTLY overstated. Most attractions/addictions are based on stronger than tought deep rooted instinctive uncoinscious TROPISMS.
My beautiful cat, Candy, passed away a few years ago and I still think of her every day. ❤ We had an incredible bond ... but I'm sure she did appreciate the food I gave her too. 😉 She will be in my heart always.
food, shelter and clean up her poop
u and everybody loves what or who makes you feel good, or you expect so ... humans are such a great treasure for cats, like ... the fully automated robotc economies of leasure we like to imagine, like a human to own a super-human loving AI to take care of all problems to cater ... may be that's why cats domesticated humans so many millennia ago.
That concept of "own" is what I think has to go away. The concept of "everyone loves what or who makes you feel good" is an interesting concept but is it true? Is love simply superficial bliss? Pleasure?
And by robotic economy are you referring to this article:
https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2015/mar/18/fully-automated-luxury-communism-robots-employment
''own'' can't go away, cause in most cases we can't co-use things. The concept is focused on ''everyone'' - note that. It is not the thing but the one who delivers it. Usually is very addictive thing. And the one has power over the supply of the thing. Carrot coercion. Much more efficient than the Stick one. NO I do not reffer to this article or any article which names post-economy ''communism''. Communism is extreme form of decapitalism - i.e. based on dissipation and waste of capital: human, machine, nature. Post-economy is a process where scarcity, i.e. the necessity of choice for wider and wider fields of consumables disappears.
Haha I should ask my girl the same question.
The answer to your question is the same as with a cat.
Her reply will probably be different from the true answer.
There should be ways to shelter value from divorce.
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