No beef. I just don't understand the appeal... same as drug use. I am not judging, just fail to see why someone would want to do it.
With pet ownership... I don't know. I think a better question is why would anyone WANT to own an animal. You spend money, effort, and time on the thing. You get a weird attachment to it (love?). Then it dies in 9 years and you are sad. No matter how loyal a dog is, to me it is just a dumb animal, laying around licking his ass and eating his own shit, that one day might decide to bite your kid's face off. I also don't really understand why someone would think it was a positive that the dog is happy to see you. That actually annoys me. Who cares if a dog is happy to see me?
As for coffee... I don't know a single person that has tried some coffee and thought "you know what, that was delicious." It is an acquired taste, apparently. I don't understand why people go to the trouble of acquiring a taste for something. If is not good, why do you keep drinking it until you like it? To me in my small world, if I taste something and it is gross and really offers me no benefit (as opposed to eating my vegetables or something), I don't go back for seconds. Same with beer for me. It was gross when I was 12 and tried it, and I have never had one again. I don't regret this in any way.
As for escapism... eh, not my bag. Life is short enough as it is, why do I want to escape the little time that I do have. I can understand the idea that the trip is an experience in and of itself, therefore it is worth doing. But the enthusiasm for drug use really seems to outweigh the actual experience (without even considering the negative impact it could have on your life).