You don't know? Is that your final answer to the question of whether a man's self described love for an inanimate object is equal to love you described for your pet cat? I suppose then you don't know if my love for my children is more important than this man's love for his sex doll? Which I guess means that if crazy sex doll guy's house is on fire and your house is on fire right next door, and he only has time to save his sex doll and not your cat or even someone else's child... I guess that is okay with you?
Really, is that your final answer? Or is there too much nuance in letting a living human die to save a doll?
I'm not in their head. :shrug:
Love is feeling, dude. People can feel things towards anything or anyone. Of far more consequence is what they do with it.
Would it be different if it was his actual live girlfriend versus my cat or another person I love? I'd still not be happy about the fact that my loved one wasn't saved. Who took their spot on the lifeboat, so to speak, or even if no one did, wouldn't make any difference.
Let's think about something else. Let's say you have some rare antique artifact. People have such things, and often they say they love them. They spend hours, perhaps daily, maintaining or restoring them. Their sense of loss if they are stolen or destroyed is quite real -- perhaps even mournful.
We regard that as, well, a little reclusive, but not as absurd as loving a sex doll. Why not? Does it make any difference? No. We're just really weird about sex, that's all. That's why you chose that example, for the pearl-clutching effect it has on people like you, which you wrongly assumed I am.
Like I said, I don't think replacing live beings with inanimate objects is healthy -- be they sex dolls or antique artifacts -- and psychology agrees with me. We're social creatures and we need social contact. However, that says nothing about the
realness of their feelings.
Feelings are just feelings.
You're the one who keeps attempting to use your subjective feelings to put people and other creatures into some kind of hierarchy of worth and declaring everyone else's feelings but yours invalid.
I don't happen to think subjective feelings are a good enough barometer to judge worth to begin with.