I may be in the market for a new car soon, which I hope to keep for at least a decade, so this kind of thing bothers me.
I don't want to buy something that's already years behind on efficiency.
I think that's the point - to discourage (certain) people from living there at all. Except it turns out people are capable of never-ending suffering and persevering through it.
You would think Israelis would already know this very well.
Grieving for a pet is totally a thing.
Comparing its importance to that of a child might be taking it a little far. Nothing would compare to losing a child.
I agree with you. I can imagine that people without children that have pets might feel like it's similar, but there's definitely quite a few several hundreds of thousand of years of evolution driving very distinct reactions.
Losing a child must, by force of nature, be much more difficult to handle than even a 20+ year relationship with one's dearest horse or Galapagos turtle or tiger cub or something.
We also don't allow cloning children, no matter how much you miss them. It's an ethical quagmire, and doesn't really address the problem (dealing with grief is hard, transplanting that grief onto a surrogate creates more problems)
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