• Egon [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    3 months ago

    There was a redux some time ago which was basically one person being a debatebro in order to avoid having to admit outdoor cats are bad for the environment (biodiversity, local fauna, extinctions of smaller animals, etc)

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      3 months ago

      brb researching that one guy’s arguments so I can state them in a reply and say “he wasn’t a debatebro he was right”

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        His argument was that it was better for cats to be outside and they don’t hurt the places where they are native (the Arabian peninsula some thousands years ago) so they should be allowed to be outside there and also everywhere else because theres no issue with them being outside. Pointing out the issues with them being outside would make him revert to “not where they are native” (they are native to nowhere after millenia of domestication. It’d be like saying pugs have a native environment. The closest thing is the northern part of the Arabian peninsula) and “but it’s mean to keep cats inside” which isn’t really related to the discussion when what he was trying to argue was that cats weren’t harmful to the environment.