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Default If I Had $40 Million

Karen Winter lied:

> John Wesley wrote:
>
>> In article .com>,
>> says...

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>>> Pet ownership may be analogous to slavery in terms of legal status
>>> but it is not analaogus in a practical sense. Wesley's dog
>>> has, we assume, a large degree of freedom and is no worse off than he
>>> would be in the wild. The relationship between Wesley and his dog
>>> is almost certainly close to the relationship between parent and child
>>> than master and slave.

>
>
>> Thanks,

>
>
> For what?
>
>> Glorfindel will never get it.

>
>
> I certainly "get it."


You don't, Karen.


> It is the way I feel about my own companion
> animals,


Pets.


> and why there is a movement today to replace "pet owner"
> with "companion animal guardian" as the preferred term.


A movement that is going nowhere, and which only
appeals to diehard leftwing identity politics
extremists like you. The movement is going nowhere.
It's just more of your empty symbolism - pure mental
masturbation.


> But until the *legal* status of animals changes -- until they are
> no longer property -- nothing will really change.


It won't.