Since the worst examples I can think of have already been mentioned, I'll just throw in that Boku No Hero Academia is making me pretty sad these days. It's like they decided to stretch out a few things that were shorter in the manga for a reason and it's gone on for so long that it doesn't feel like the same story at all anymore. I miss what the show used to be.
ETA: Ascendance of a Bookworm was really fun right up until she decides to dump everything in the trash and join the church.
I made a list of names I've always liked and found I kept coming back to one in particular, so that had to be it.
OP is providing sources for all their information. Disagreeing with it doesn't make it false.
...You are agreeing with me. Sapience is what you are describing. Cats are sentient, not sapient.
Humans are sapient. Your cat is not. Treating your cat by human standards is not fair to the cat.
In the end, it's a numbers game. Wild populations of cats around the world don't hold a candle to the amount of domestic cats. That's what ends up making it so damaging to wildlife. There's no shortage of people enabling cat populations either. It's inevitable when the animals in question are so cherished by humanity. Feral pigs would be another case of domesticated animals ruining habitats and killing wildlife. They are routinely destroyed, and for good reason. With cats, you're far more likely to see someone feeding a feral population than gunning them down the way hogs are. It's just the reality of our attachment.
Or to come into contact with coyotes and raccoons.
It's also just ultimately selfish to not put the work in to provide indoor enrichment. Of course it's not an easy adjustment when the cat is used to being outdoors, but it's doable. Just requires some effort on the part of the owner.
Yeah, I really cannot stress enough just how upsetting it is to clean up dead kittens. All the dead baby animals are upsetting but it hits different when it's a kitten.
I love birds. I have a couple myself but I also put considerable time and effort into making my garden a place for them to visit. I'm sure you know where this is going.
I hate that there's nothing I can do to keep cats out of the yard. I hate that people are too lazy to provide enrichment for their pet indoors and feel entitled to inflict it upon the neighborhood instead. I have had to clean up dead kittens who got hit and crawled under my car to die. I have had to clean up full dead families of birds I rarely get to see anymore who I somehow lucked into enticing them to nest nearby. I have found full nests of dead newborn rabbits with my lawn mower because they had been left scattered dead in tall grass and already teeming with maggots in the summer sun.
I don't understand why all of this has to be my problem. There is quite simply nothing good about letting cats outdoors. If they're not fixed, they create kittens who end up dead. If someone tries to control their hunting with a bell on the collar, they just adapt and go on killing. They shit and fight and die miserable deaths, and for what? Why are people so stubborn and just straight up mean when it comes to keeping your pet indoors? You can show someone the statistics and point them to resources for indoor enrichment and they get mad about it. I don't get it.
I will forever think it's pretty fucking funny that the only thing Musk had to do to retain his popularity was absolutely fucking nothing. Doing nothing is too hard for this silver spoon coward.
Hi there. I'm trans. It wasn't up to me. I didn't choose to be. Life would be way easier if I wasn't. I'm dealing with it as best I can so I can live my life. An entire political party is currently putting money and energy behind denying me healthcare. I'm an adult. I'm at a point where I can't make hormones on my own but that doesn't matter to them. The dysphoria I was experiencing prior to transitioning was straight up not compatible with continuing to live. You don't even have to take my word for it - several doctors at different agencies agreed enough to write letters for me to start care. It is disingenuous to look at how conservatives are trying to, at best, make me very sick on a daily basis, or are, at worst, trying to put me in the ground and say "yeah, this is just as bad as the left's typical talking points."
If I were a cis person who couldn't synthesize my own hormones for whatever reason, there would be nothing stopping me from getting this exact. Same. Treatment. These things don't happen by accident. They happen because the hate is there to open the door and a lot of self-proclaimed "good" folks are real happy to watch it go down.
How do you reconcile with such an insanely disjointed false equivalency? Honest question.
I find this kinda fascinating because if you've thought this your entire life, you would have had to have read every intended plural "you" as singular and there would be nothing to inform you otherwise without very explicit context.
For the record, every 2nd person pronoun in the preceding paragraph can be singular or plural and still be grammatically correct while remaining socially correct for my speaking to an audience of unknown size. "You all" and "you guys" are slang phrases that don't appear in formal writing.