Animal Collective

I have a lot more patience for people than for pets. Maybe it’s cause I believe our higher mental complexity deserves greater slack, but when I think that through it seems backwards. Shouldn’t higher-level thinking beget greater responsibility, accountability? Pets don’t make conscientious decisions, so why would I act as though they have agency or personality? They don’t do anything on purpose. Or they do everything on purpose, because there’s no weighing out decisions abstractly or in the long-term. They seem to deserve more of my patience than people do, yet maybe it’s because they bring out the animalistic response in me - all chasing, yelling, grabbing, pouncing, and throwing.

Man, I gotta get a job.