It's this sort of talk that puzzles me, actually! Are your motives outside of their cuteness? Well, far from me to judge you, or anyone for that matter. However, thanks for the comment, I'll make sure to look into those.
That would be anything consisting of what there is to love about babies, puppies and kittens. Not to sound misguided, but I believe liking something for how cute and adorable it is doesn't mean it's a good idea to have one. It seems to me many people make that mistake, so if you could enlighten me, it would be greatly appreciated.
I feel odd that I'm the second person to comment on this, but I think you're spot on about how just something is cute and adorable doesn't mean you should have one.
It reminded me of when I was a kid, I wanted a rabbit because they were adorable. So I got one, but Lord, the work that went in to cleaning her cage... I swear, taking care of all of my caged animals I had was more work than taking care of my cat :/
My brother and I once each had a rat. They eventually died, my rat killing his and then dying of a tumor to the belly, but the lesson we got out of it is that even if the little bastards costed about 7 bucks, cleaning the cage was a really big responsibility. I guess at that time I was in a phase of "I'm an adult now" (that would be around 15 years old at that time), so the experience at least had me disillusioned from how easy it was to take care of a living being. I won't go into the Spider-man morale or point out the struggle we all have on growing up and getting responsibilities, but there's effectively that tendency of people forgetting about them.
I guess I could take your rabbit experience and compare it with not wanting kids! Perhaps those who experience what responsibilities really are first-hand are the ones who are more likely to ackowledge their distate for them.
Not everyone NEEDS to have kids. I like kids but I do not want a child. I honestly do not feel like putting in the effort. I also do not want to end up neglecting them or having to worry that they are going to be killed or kidnapped.
Sorry, but I couldn't help but think of the movie "Grimlins" as a perfect (albeit fictional) example of liking something because it is cute and then having one turns out to be a bad idea.
Quite the comparison if I may. For one, people try to avoid feeding babies at night. The dreaded thing isn't that cute once today's supper is scattered all over the floor now, is it? Although, thankfully, babies unlike gremlins aren't known for pampering with military equipement, or even scientifical experiments.
Well, from the looks of your first post, I was under the impression that you "love babies", "puppies and kittens". Do you mean to tell me there's no correlation with those opinions and the subject at hand? If so, I'm awfully sorry for leading us into a misunderstanding.
Of course there is, we agree on that. I was just under the impression that you misunderstood me as saying that BECAUSE I like them, I want them, when in fact I said EVEN THOUGH I like them, I don't want any. Before getting into reasons why, I was trying to clarify that. That's all there was to it. I honestly hadn't understood what you meant.
That is quite alright. Know for one that I wasn't aiming particularly at you. You see me sorry for the confusion I caused there. No harm done, hopefully!
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It's this sort of talk that puzzles me, actually! Are your motives outside of their cuteness? Well, far from me to judge you, or anyone for that matter. However, thanks for the comment, I'll make sure to look into those.
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I'd love to elaborate, but I don't think I understood what exactly was puzzling. Sorry. :/
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I feel odd that I'm the second person to comment on this, but I think you're spot on about how just something is cute and adorable doesn't mean you should have one.
It reminded me of when I was a kid, I wanted a rabbit because they were adorable. So I got one, but Lord, the work that went in to cleaning her cage... I swear, taking care of all of my caged animals I had was more work than taking care of my cat :/
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My brother and I once each had a rat. They eventually died, my rat killing his and then dying of a tumor to the belly, but the lesson we got out of it is that even if the little bastards costed about 7 bucks, cleaning the cage was a really big responsibility. I guess at that time I was in a phase of "I'm an adult now" (that would be around 15 years old at that time), so the experience at least had me disillusioned from how easy it was to take care of a living being. I won't go into the Spider-man morale or point out the struggle we all have on growing up and getting responsibilities, but there's effectively that tendency of people forgetting about them.
I guess I could take your rabbit experience and compare it with not wanting kids! Perhaps those who experience what responsibilities really are first-hand are the ones who are more likely to ackowledge their distate for them.
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Not everyone NEEDS to have kids. I like kids but I do not want a child. I honestly do not feel like putting in the effort. I also do not want to end up neglecting them or having to worry that they are going to be killed or kidnapped.
Sorry, but I couldn't help but think of the movie "Grimlins" as a perfect (albeit fictional) example of liking something because it is cute and then having one turns out to be a bad idea.
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That's an awesome example. Still, I'd rather have a Gremlin than a baby. Go figure.
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Haha, just don't feed it chicken!!
Quite the comparison if I may. For one, people try to avoid feeding babies at night. The dreaded thing isn't that cute once today's supper is scattered all over the floor now, is it? Although, thankfully, babies unlike gremlins aren't known for pampering with military equipement, or even scientifical experiments.
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Lol, I didn't even think about the feeding them at night reference. Haha! Thank God too right.
I feel somewhat stupid asking this, but what stand did you understand I take on this?
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Well, from the looks of your first post, I was under the impression that you "love babies", "puppies and kittens". Do you mean to tell me there's no correlation with those opinions and the subject at hand? If so, I'm awfully sorry for leading us into a misunderstanding.
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Of course there is, we agree on that. I was just under the impression that you misunderstood me as saying that BECAUSE I like them, I want them, when in fact I said EVEN THOUGH I like them, I don't want any. Before getting into reasons why, I was trying to clarify that. That's all there was to it. I honestly hadn't understood what you meant.
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That is quite alright. Know for one that I wasn't aiming particularly at you. You see me sorry for the confusion I caused there. No harm done, hopefully!