Who chooses who my "allies" are?

[gulliver]

Who chooses who my allies are? I was thinking I would rather do it myself most of the time.

Say I'm a cat fancier and someone else isn't. Does a dog fancier get to speak for me just because they want to and think they understand me? What if they say something stupid about cats or cat fanciers like me and it makes me and my cats look bad? What if they have bad manners or neglect their dog's hygiene (or their own)? What if they're just pretending to be cat fanciers and have a side hustle selling cat T-shirts, but they are actually funneling the revenue to dog shows as prize money?

What about all the other pet types? Do the owners of sugar gliders and chameleons just get to decide for me that they are my buddies? This seems like chaos.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

1. Could you spell out what you're actually saying? I'm not getting the metaphor.

[gulliver]

3. Metaphor?

I think explaining a metaphor is like wrestling with a simile. Both make great follow-up OPs!

[Ping Tung]

2. Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is. Albert Camus

[gulliver]

4. Big Camus fan nt