Ask my cat who's more significant in her life. Trump isn't the one who feeds her, gives her water, buys her cat milk and toys, or cleans her litter box. He's not the one who cuddles her and plays with her and pets her and keeps her brushed and her claws clipped. And for damn sure, he's not the one who pays the vet bills or will be there for her when it's time for her to be euthanized and/or cremated.
I may be nothing to Donald Trump. But I'm the world to my cat. And that matters a hell of a lot more to me.
I am not that fond of cats, sorry. For me, they are yet another creatures out of thousands of forms there are (including humans), first. Everything else, second.
Like you, I could melt over how a cat plays. But still I am intelligent and honest to myself enough to notice how it kills life for sport and routine pleasure. Birds or insects it is still life, which is all the same in the big picture. Good and bad is a relative scale. For your cat, from the anthropomorphic point of view, you are good, for creatures it kills you are a patroness of the evil monster. If your cat dies, you will be there doing some human goody ritual stuff.
<snip> EDIT TO EUPHEMIZE: And if cat's owner dies, her cat could do some nasty stuff inappropriate to describe.
For the rest of the living world, the planet, your cat is yet another unit of burden, which is there unjustly, not through the natural means, not through its own qualities as an organism, but through a patronage of a superior creature. Both you and your cat take more from the living world than you give away. Your cat exists in the place of other creatures, taking their niche, habitat, biomass. Some of those creatures are close to extinction. Most of them are much more valuable for the natural world and its balance. Your cat is just out of place. Even more than you. You, as a human being, has at least a potential to contribute some tiny micro-bit into spreading the Life beyond this planet. And your cat just eats, poos and kills, while you use it for your joy, nurse it instead of doing something more useful and meaningful for the humanity or Life in general.
Also, the way you describe it, it would be much more appropriate to have a kid. Because this attitude of yours is not some kind of mysterious ethereal goodness, it is just some mammal instincts erroneously used.
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