That wasn't the question. If you have a dog, do you consider them family?
The question proposed was, 'Are dogs "family"?'
Dogs are tools. Some people just don't know how to use them as such. Tools are property.
Eh.
I don’t love my hammer.
I don’t want to exaggerate the importance of animals, and I don’t even think they have souls, but I also don’t want to underplay their importance or significance either. They are more than just tools. They do have feelings and they can offer companionship, which mere possessions cannot.
It doesn’t mean the world to my hammer to curl up on my bed when I’m sick. My hammer don’t give a shit. My cats do, and my dog too. They give me attention when I’m not feeling well. Whenever the chemo gets rough especially.
My wife doesn’t like the animals in our bed, but it’s OK when I’m sick. I’m not looking to a hammer for that.
Idk why everyone hates hammers around here?
Dogs are property, regardless of how fondly you do or don't feel towards the animal. You own it, period. Tools are property. Your dog might be a good tool or a poor tool, that's on you. Yours happens to be a tool to cure loneliness.
Now, I love and would defend my living property more vigorously than my similarly priced nonliving property, but none of this make my dogs family.
Does a hammer have a soul?
Why would a hammer have a soul?
The soul is a possession of life. Animals and plants are alive and have souls. But, they don't have souls like we do. We have intelligent souls unlike even the "smartest" animal. We have religious or even more simply, spiritual souls.
Having a soul doesn't make us family beyond the spiritual we're all brothers type of concept.
As much as I consider my car family.
Does your car have a soul?
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