The debate over how controlled cat breeding would work in such a world is a tough one -- trying to keep cat breeding controlled in our world is extremely difficult -- but sure, most cat lovers would want cats to continue to exist in such a scenario
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It's just that this is SO FAR FROM REALITY it's absurd The idea of keeping feral cat populations GROWING AT A STABLE RATE, never mind STOPPING them growing, never mind them DECLINING, is this fairy tale
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Hell, the fact that cat lovers love cats and are pushing cat population control programs that are as humane to the cats as possible is one huge reason it's a pipe dream, I'm sorry to say
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Like, there are far fewer rat lovers in the world Most people don't give a shit what happens to rats, we don't mind if rats suffer, we straight up violently kill rats in huge numbers without trying to adopt them to good homes There are still lots and lots and lots of rats
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From a cold pest control perspective, cats are just bigger rats who are 1.5 steps up from the regular rats on the rat food chain That people fall in love with and want to take home for some reason
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(A real rat lover would actually sit down at this point and talk about how rats are clearly smarter and more social creatures than cats and that they're much closer to the roots of the human evolutionary tree than cats)
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(Our love affair with cats is this perversity where now that we're the big dominant apex species we've fallen in love with tiny versions of the predatory carnivores that used to stalk and kill our ancestors)
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I don’t think it’s that perverse, even if it’s a bit atavistic for modern society. For early agricultural societies, the arrival of these furry little murder machines probably felt like a literal godsend. Hence the out and out worship in some cases.
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Yeah the Chinese word for "cat", "mao", while it may be related to the noise they make, also seems to be related to the word "miao", for grain The character for "cat" contains the character for "grain" and this may be meaningful
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Replying to @arthur_affect @ComradeGorbash and
My partner’s last name is Wang and the main character in The Three Body Problem is named Wang Miao, so that’s what I want to name our hypothetical future (adopted) cat. I think you’ve just added another layer to that pun?
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I mean yeah you could make it an explicit pun by making it "Wang Mao" (It's a different "mao" from Chairman Mao)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @ComradeGorbash and
True, maybe we’d better wait til Liu Cixin dies before we name pets after TBP characters. I don’t envy everyone with cats named Mrs. Figg. Although when my mom was a kid she had a donkey named Don Quixote (pronounced “Donkey Otie”) and there’s something to be said for tradition.
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