[alt text: an illustration of a person with a head-empty expression on their face, who is saying, "Not letting your cat outside is CRUEL!" Around the person are various gruesome scenes of different cats in distress. From the top and going clockwise, the scenes include: a cat being carried away by a hawk; a cat that is on fire; a dead cat in the road that has been run over by a car; several dead kittens; a cat that is missing an eye and various patches of fur; a cat that is feasting on a songbird; and a cat that is being carried away by a coyote. The person appears to be completely oblivious to these scenes of distress.]
Quick! Give us the stupidist fucking take on this that you possibly can!
Today we learned that outdoor birds and cats are extinct because cats killed all the birds and wolves/birds killed all the cats.
cats are an invasive species. this is a proven fact, supported by ecologists. and if you love your cat, you won't let them outside to get run over by a car. there are million other ways to provide a cat with similar enrichment.
Humans are an invasive species... maybe we shouldn't be allowed outside?
Humans are not an invasive species. We migrated to everywhere we currently live. Invasive species are usually defined something along the lines of being a species that was introduced somewhere (by people) where it didn't previously exist and is harmful to its new environment. We meet the harmfulness part of the definition but not the introduction part of it.