If you live in an apartment, just don’t get one

Reasoning edit: pets, especially cats, will leave a smell all over furniture. Cleaning becomes an even worse chore due to the fur. They also require “house training” in order to not chew/claw/destroy most stuff that’s lying around the house.

  • I Cast Fist@programming.devOPEnglish
    722·
    25 days ago

    Are you advocating for the somewhat extreme position that pets shouldn’t exist?

    Reductio ad absurdum is the technique of reducing an argument or hypothesis to absurdity, by pushing the argument’s premises or conclusions to their logical limits and showing how ridiculous the consequences would be, thus disproving or discrediting the argument.

    • Glytch@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      25 days ago

      If we don’t keep pets in the house where do we keep them? Constantly outside? Do we build a separate shed for them? What about fish? Can people keep fish inside? Or lizards? Or Guinea pigs? Or Hamsters? Or gerbils? Or any of the myriad of other small animals that people keep in terrariums/aquariums and can’t be kept outside?

      The problem with citing that fallacy is that your position is already absurd without reduction.