LizardKing

Cars are not living organisms, are not species, and they serve us in every way, not the other way around.

Braindead take.

"I refuse to be just another person doing something because of chemicals and biology."

Then I've got some bad new for you. Everything you do is because of chemicals and biology. You felt the need to post this dumbass comment because of chemicals and biology. Everything that you have ever done and ever will do are because of chemicals in your brain telling you to do things. You will never outsmart these chemicals because you are these chemicals.

For all intents and purposes, they are magical feelings that come out of nowhere and make you feel happy and patient and full of love for your child.

Something which you clearly don't understand at all, which only serves to further prove my original point, so I guess thank you?

Another strawman argument. I never said anything about biology. Adoptive parents are still parents. Your siblings are still your siblings.

It's still different than a child someone considers as "not theirs".

And btw you were a child, you weren't ready for that kind of responsibility and shouldn't have had to do those things, and I'm genuinely sorry that you had to experience that, and I'm glad your siblings had someone in their life to look out for them. I'm sure that made all the difference to them.

I agree with every word of that, except the first line. My point is that OP cannot possibly know if owning pets will provide them the same satisfaction as having children because they've never had children.

No one here is actually disputing what I actually said, because what I actually said is correct. I made a statement, and everyone threw their strawman arguments at me.