LizardKing

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

Braindead take.

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.

Friend, this is a forum website designed for discussion and interaction. If you want an echo chamber, I'm sure there are places dedicated to that, but this is not it.

Start your own private instance, only allow specific people in, close that shit up tight if you want.

This is not that place.

Mature and intelligent in the scientific sense. As in "intelligent life".