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25 Aug 2017, 1:27 pm

^I feel like an happy cat trapped in an unhappy human body



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25 Aug 2017, 1:36 pm

My cat Floyd was content in his cat-ness.

I had a cat, Zum Zum, who really wanted to be human, though.



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25 Aug 2017, 1:44 pm

Do you pronounce that like in "zoom zoom" rather than rhyming with "dum dum?


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25 Aug 2017, 2:40 pm

Some owners treat their dogs better than humans

So happiness comes first

Species second



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25 Aug 2017, 3:52 pm

Zum Zum = Dum Dum (though she was a very smart cat!)



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25 Aug 2017, 7:22 pm

If the ultimate goal in life is happiness, then it seems that it would be advisable to go with the happy dog.



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25 Aug 2017, 8:25 pm

Chronos wrote:
If the ultimate goal in life is happiness, then it seems that it would be advisable to go with the happy dog.

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quality of life depends on many factors. happiness is only one of them. health, relationships, $$, and et cetera.

but some owners treat their dogs like the dogs are the greatest thing since sliced bread.

and if i had a Doctor Spock type owner that let me off leash just because "she really likes to be off leash", and did not discipline much less train me, i would rather be a happy dog than an unhappy human.

some dogs get abused. some humans get abused.



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25 Aug 2017, 8:41 pm

shortfatbalduglyman wrote:
Chronos wrote:
If the ultimate goal in life is happiness, then it seems that it would be advisable to go with the happy dog.

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quality of life depends on many factors. happiness is only one of them. health, relationships, $$, and et cetera.

but some owners treat their dogs like the dogs are the greatest thing since sliced bread.

and if i had a Doctor Spock type owner that let me off leash just because "she really likes to be off leash", and did not discipline much less train me, i would rather be a happy dog than an unhappy human.

some dogs get abused. some humans get abused.


If one is happy, one is happy.

It's like the question "What's heavier? A pound of lead or a pound of feathers?"

It's irrelevant if it's lead or feathers. The point is, whatever you have, it's a pound of it.



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31 Aug 2017, 8:12 pm

I'd rather be an unhappy human being because I don't think happiness is the be all and end all.

I find more meaning in the pursuit of happiness than in happiness itself.

I'd also rather be an unhappy human being than a happy human being on a heroin trip. I want me happiness to have meaning.


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31 Aug 2017, 9:52 pm

I like dogs much more than people but I wouldn't want to be one.
People have much more control over thier lives.


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31 Aug 2017, 10:40 pm

Raptor wrote:
I like dogs much more than people but I wouldn't want to be one.
People have much more control over thier lives.

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While I do not like people or dogs

Dogs scare me

But at least they do not put up a farce

Not too confusing

They bar at me, chase me. One dog bit me.

Then it's over

With people, it's like a saga

One drama after the next drama
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People do have more control over their lives

But if the dog is happy, that sounds like dog has a good life. Doesn't matter if the owner controls the dogs life



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08 Sep 2017, 2:50 am

What is the happiest dog like? Is he as happy as the unhappiest human? That I can't answer. So I don't know.



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08 Sep 2017, 9:02 pm

CharityGoodyGrace wrote:
What is the happiest dog like? Is he as happy as the unhappiest human? That I can't answer. So I don't know.


Even a run-of-the-mill happy dog might be even happier than the happiest human. But would you wanna forfeit your humanness in order to join another species- even if you were guaranteed to be a happier specimen of that species than you are now? That is the question.



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08 Sep 2017, 11:01 pm

I think I'd rather be a happy dog. At least a dog's caretaker would be choosing to be so - it's a lot easier to hand a dog off to someone else or a shelter without judgment than it is to hand off or kick out one's disabled, unemployed (adult) child. By choosing to keep me, my owner would be telling me I'm not a burden. And my only job would be to make my owner happy, and the fact that they were keeping me would be proof I was doing it adequately. And of course, I would be happy. But then again, I have the soul of a dragon, so my body already doesn't match my soul - I have no particular devotion to being human since, well, I'm not really.

I would rather be a cat than a dog, but the question was specifically unhappy human or happy dog. If I could be a happy anything-other-than-human, of course I'd be a happy dragon :) Wouldn't really need anything other than simply being a dragon for that, at least for a good while - I'd simply enjoy finally having my true form.


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09 Sep 2017, 1:26 am

I'd rather be a cat.
More specifically, my cat.
Being looked after by a human like me.


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09 Sep 2017, 8:13 am

"Unhappy" and "Happy" are irrelevant as they're ephemeral emotional states - thus the question actually reads:

Would you rather be a human or a dog?

I'm going to go with option 3: a human with the ability to turn into a dog.