Well damn...that is a fine dilemma you propose. On the one hand, a cat can be replaced with another cat, but forgoing tea is just neigh sacrilege. Unless you mean to say the choice is between tea or cats. If it is cat specific, I choose tea. If it is all cats, then I chose cats.
Clearly I would then need to create a loophole by genetically crossbreeding a cat with the tea plant...
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