Secular Humanism and Humanity: What are they?

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I don't call having a pet slavery, that's entirely different. We have pets and our lives revolve around making them happy

Assuming you look after them properly, that's more akin to adopting.

-go ahead and tell yourself that, lol. See if it works with buying me, an adult human male. If you bought me, and your life revolved around "making me happy" - a generous assumption in the case of a pet, let alone a human being...would that be adoption or slavery?

I don't know if you're being serious or not.

There are animals which need our care, that have been bred to be pets and then abandoned. So I go to rescue centres and I give them a home. They would most likely die in the wild very quickly. I'm not "buying" them, that would be getting them from a breeder which I am against. I hate animals being treated as a commodity. The ones in rescue centres are like helpless children who have been abandoned by their parents and need looking after. Unlike humans, they can never mature to the point where they can be allowed into the world on their own. The only humane alternative would be to put them all to sleep.

So no one "owns" these animals, and I'm not buying them. I am not grabbing them from the wild, nor trading for them from other "owners" so it's entirely different to your scenario, I hope you will agree.