You Don't Want Him Associated With Them
Why do we want Pluto to be a planet?
My main theory is that "planet" appears to be a title of prestige. This is reasonable, rational even -- the planets comprise the eight largest bodies in the solar system, after the sun. But the planets are so much more...so much...WORSE.
Planets dominate their orbits. Everyone else don't. If you shared your orbit with a planet, you wouldn't for very long. The Great Eight funneled the minors out of the land they claimed for themselves. Millions were displaced as Jupiter and Saturn surveyed the territory that they never owned, separating families, ripping societies from their roots, until you get the situation today, with rocky asteroids like lumped together with icy asteroids, forced to jointly occupy the space that they would have shared between one another under the old system. But none of the planets care -- they're just asteroids, one and the same. The NEOs and Centaurs that remain live their lives with a noose around their necks. They never know when they would finally be encountered, then shredded to bits or ejected into deep space. But not even the havens are safe.
Jupiter has been evicting asteroids from the Kirkwood gaps for millennia -- slowly stretching their orbits out, destabilizing them before they even realized what has been going on, before leaving them in the hands of the rocky planets. Oh, and how they delight in tormenting these poor souls, treating them like baseballs, before ripping them to shreds.
What were once indigenous frontier lands, settled communally by the icy asteroids of the distant lands, were conquered by the ice giants. Neptune, in particular, dominates the Kuiper Belt. He makes all the decisions on the orbits of the resonant objects -- where they live, how much they're allowed to deviate, when they're allowed to complete their orbit -- while scattering others further and further until they become detached, lost souls in the dark beyond.
None of them are able to put up any resistance. They're not allowed to. It wouldn't even matter. Jupiter has fragmented the Asteroid Belt, and his influence has prevented the accretion of anything larger than Ceres. Even if they were to accumulate into a single body to challenge the ruling system, their total mass wouldn't even be larger than Pluto's.
Jupiter's Greek and Trojan prisons carry tens of thousands of asteroids that we know of, and there may be hundreds of thousands more, maybe a million, with a diameter greater than 1 kilometer -- a figure about equivalent to the asteroid belt. The gas giants, cumulatively, have enslaved hundreds of irregular moons that we know of. Saturn, with her immense mass and copious amounts of spare time, accounts for more than two thirds of that figure. But Neptune, in his plot to build an empire, has gone as far as to abduct a whole dwarf planet -- Triton. His mate could only watch as Triton was strangled by the giant's immense force, who then flung her into the abyss.
Even their children aren't safe. Mars has plans to shred his adoptive son, Phobos, into a ring for his personal adornment. This is not a one off. Neptune intends to do the same with Triton. Saturn killed moons possibly the size of Rhea and Dione for her rings. Jupiter is actively destroying Amalthea, Thebe, Metis, and Adrastea for his rings. And all four gas giants stretch and squeeze their major moons like minuscule bugs, turning their insides to slush -- Io, Enceladus, and Triton are crushed to such an extent that they are actively bleeding out.
The planets have always been like this. They always will be like this.
What are planets? The elite, yes. But no matter how you interpret the facts, they are selfish, uncaring, power-hungry, terrorizing, tyrannical, and authoritarian. They are monsters. Being a planet is a title of evil.
Pluto never deserved to be associated with these demons. He doesn't deserve to become re-associated with them.
