If the pet is mentally compentent to consent, then calling them or treating them as 'a pet' is legalizing slavery. You can't marry your pet, because if they're something worth marrying, they're not a pet*, or morally shouldn't be.
*except perhaps under the rules of Safe Sane and Consensual, but that's another issue entirely.
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Date: 2009-04-22 10:19 pm (UTC)*except perhaps under the rules of Safe Sane and Consensual, but that's another issue entirely.