Danger, Will Robinson
Apr. 12th, 2007 06:34![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
torquillIt has come to my attention that I have a hot button that not all of my friends know exists. It's probably a good idea to mention it.
If anyone -- and I mean anyone -- brings up the topic of indoor vs. outdoor cats in more than a discussion of simple logistics, or mention of what they do with their own pets (not why), it is the fastest way to get me dizzy with fury. I am aware of this, and I will leave a discussion politely if it turns to the philosophical angle, but do not ever try to tell me what I (or people in general) "should" do with their own pets.
It is not productive to have this button. I am not cultivating it. Yet every time it comes up, it seems like an avenue by which people can preach freely and impose their own views with the confidence of self-righteousness, rather than a weighing of real-life factors. It's happened so often that I'm not rational about it anymore.
No further discussion, please.
If anyone -- and I mean anyone -- brings up the topic of indoor vs. outdoor cats in more than a discussion of simple logistics, or mention of what they do with their own pets (not why), it is the fastest way to get me dizzy with fury. I am aware of this, and I will leave a discussion politely if it turns to the philosophical angle, but do not ever try to tell me what I (or people in general) "should" do with their own pets.
It is not productive to have this button. I am not cultivating it. Yet every time it comes up, it seems like an avenue by which people can preach freely and impose their own views with the confidence of self-righteousness, rather than a weighing of real-life factors. It's happened so often that I'm not rational about it anymore.
No further discussion, please.