The differences of these relationships

[CheertheSecond]

What are the differences between a friend, a pet, a cattle and a slave?

Asking for my alien overlord who is in the middle of their existential middle-age crisis.

 

[Empress_Omnii]

What are the differences between a pet, a cattle and a slave?

A slave is forced to work and obey, they are considered the owners property.

A pet is an animal that you keep for pleasure and/or companionship.

Cattle is a cow.

Friend is someone who you have a mutual positive relationship with.

They aren't that similar.

 

[K_Jira]

A slave is forced to work and obey, they are considered the owners property.

A pet is an animal that you keep for pleasure and/or companionship.

Cattle is a cow.

Friend is someone who you have a mutual positive relationship with.

They aren't that similar.

I half-expected you to say cattle is a livestock from the flow of the theme…

 

[Empress_Omnii]

I half-expected you to say cattle is a livestock from the flow of the theme…

Well... I would have but cattle don't need to be livestock. They are bred and kept for and as livestock to produce meat and milk, but they are only livestock if they are being used to make profit.

 

[Navillus]

A friend is an equal, a pet should be living better than you whilst in your home, Cattle is in all honesty not much different than a slave maybe even a bit worse depending on the context and finally a Slave is a workforce with no choice or free will-nyah.

 

[Daydreamers]

How can you not tell slave from friend? Are you the victim? Or the perpetrator?

 

[StoneInky]

How can you not tell slave from friend? Are you the victim? Or the perpetrator?

Good point.

*Inches away from @CheertheSecond...*

 

[Daydreamers]

Good point.

*Inches away from @CheertheSecond...*

I feel like the second in his name kinda answers the question

 

[CheertheSecond]

Gathered so far.

 

[RepresentingDesire]

A slave is forced to work and obey, they are considered the owners property.

A pet is an animal that you keep for pleasure and/or companionship.

Cattle is a cow.

Friend is someone who you have a mutual positive relationship with.

They aren't that similar.

The only similarity is that all a there for profit, emotional or material one.

Gathered so far.


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14: You can exploit the all for financial benefits, friend is the only one that has often an option of ending the exploitation.
18: You can eat everything as long as it fits in your mouth, survivability and values are something that would need a separate discussion.

 

[Empress_Omnii]

Gathered so far.


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Yet being a slave, pet and friend aren't mutually exclusive. You could have a slave kept as a pet, and you could become friends.

 

[CheertheSecond]

Yet being a slave, pet and friend aren't mutually exclusive. You could have a slave kept as a pet, and you could become friends.

An enslaved pet friend? Now that's something.