[Refractive Reflections]

Originally Posted by Gyt Kaliba

Well, for starters, if they were on the same...whatever-the-right-word-is level as a human, they wouldn't be a pet anyway, cuz that would be wrong too.

As for the latter questions of your post though, I almost feel like this is a 'trap' question so you or others can go 'HA, HE IS SICK/IS A FURRY/etc.', but you know what? I'm game.

I admit that I find it hard to imagine because the default reaction is to feel a little queasy, because all we do have in reality are non-anthromorphic non-human-intelligence/emotioned animals. So now that you ask me directly, I guess I can see more where some people's uncomfortableness is coming from. But if there was an animal on the same 'whatever' level as humanity, and I fell in love with them and them me? Then yeah, in this hypothetical scenario, I would be unashamed of it. Again though, this is under the hypothesis that it was a consensual relationship, and this other being was on the same wavelengths as me as a person.

Maybe that's the word(s) I'm looking for, is something dealing with consensual. Animals, sentient or not, aren't able to 'consent' to something like we humans are, and there-in lies the difference between these hypothetical scenarios and actually sick people.

Anyway, again, maybe we had better get back on topic of Casey Jones here. ^_^;

All I'm gonna say is "to each their own". That's all... nothing more, nothing less. **shrug**