A typical day at a normal fluffy park. At the end of the day, street cleaners have to clean around 50-100 fluffies left behind, dead or just lost and with no identification.
A small pitchfork does help the job to be easier
A little shitrat born into the world expecting love and hugs learning the hard way how cruel the world can be is one of my all time favourite fluffy tropes.
They do “$1 fluffy rentals” to give people an idea of owning a fluffy, walk them around the park and whatever. unfortunately fluffies cannot be convinced that they aren’t/haven’t been adopted so can only be “rented” once. So they are disposed of after.
They eat, bleed, and beg for mercy in the voices of children. For this to be such a widespread thing that street cleaners are collecting dozens of them like common garbage every day, I can only assume this is a society that has been dealing with fluffies for so long that generations of families have been entirely desensitized to something that sounds reasonably close to a human child crying and begging for its life. As for how that comes to be, I think advancements in artificial intelligence would be a big contributor; you could convince the public that fluffies are biological machines with the same sentience as a chat-bot.
I feel like you’re looking at something wayyy to deep into it. Given the fact we’re ignoring the fact we have AI nowadays that can mimic people now, ignoring the fact any and all fake life would get shot down so fast that Hasbro wouldn’t even get a minute to look into it. Oh and the fact, this is all made up and is their own head-canon.
I’m more referring to the fact of the lack of concern for something in pain and lack of empathy. The kind of thing the former owner is probably thinking is “aw, my “toy” is broken, oh well mom will get me a new one”. It kinda reminds me of the attitude of a psychopath like how they like to kill animals. But most of all I kinda want to know how many psychopaths are in the fluffy universe because I think it’d make a good story, a psychopathic serial killer who kills fluffy owners to situate their need to kill fluffys. With the ones in happy caring homes being their favorite targets.
If I program a computer to say ow when I click on a big red button, does it feel pain? No.
Fluffies are the same. They are literally just genetically engineered machines preprogrammed to act like a friend to small children. Its no different than a mechanical tickle me elmo.