• Pieisawesome@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 day ago

    Whataboutism at its finest.

    Doesn’t matter what wild animals do. Your domesticated animal should not be allowed to kill indiscriminately. What you see the cat bring back isn’t the full total of its destruction.

    Your cat will also push out other predators and has no need to compete for resources with wild animals.

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      16 hours ago

      Your domesticated animal should not be allowed to kill indiscriminately.

      How many acres of habitat have you and your domesticated humans destroyed for your home, farmland to support your appetites, strip mines, highways, etc. Sure, my domestic cat kills the occasional vulnerable creature in my yard - it is part of the suburban ecology. If you coddle your baby squirrels that fall from the nest and nurse them back to health, that’s your hobby - which is “better for the ecology” is a matter of opinion. Neither is significant.

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        4 hours ago

        Strip mines? Highways? What?

        I’m not sure what you are going for? If I am reading this correctly, you are saying farm cause strip mines?

        Yeah… not going to debate this with you if you are spouting nonsense

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          2 hours ago

          I’m saying people cause strip mines. People who use coal, and aluminum, and yes: phosphates for farms. How many people live in your house? The land your house is on isn’t the only impact to the global ecology of your existence, you’re also contributing to the construction of roads and the rest of the infrastructure that supports your life in that house, your job wherever you may work, the clear-cut tree farm used to make the toilet paper you use, all of it.

          8.32 billion people on this planet, currently negatively impacting 75% of all land on Earth, that’s 3.3 acres per person.

          You want to make a difference, work from home, or go vegetarian, or choose not to fly when practical. Bitching about whether cats are inside or outside on the internet is about as meaningful as criticizing Brittney Spears’ choice of eyeshadow color.