"I might gently suggest that the choices you're faced with aren't that binary. This community has many non-human people. Mechanical life forms, a wolf, hell we've got at least one whole-ass ghost. If we ever step off this ship it might be a service to yourself to think about what you want that relationship to look like. You're clearly not ignorant of society, this whole game is honestly brilliant. I know cougars aren't the cuddliest creatures to ever stalk the world but you're not just a cougar, are ya?"