My cat is 22 and I let him do this now. He likes to drink the slow drip from the tap, and who I am I to say no to a cat who is about 110 in human years? I even run it slow for him now every once in a while and lift him up.
'Worst case scenario even if they don't respond you'll still be training and learning how to work in a group, and you can be a spy and learn their tactics and how to defeat them in the case of a civil war.'
I can think of way worse scenarios than them ignoring my attempts to convert them. Maybe the right wing gun psychos might do gun stuff.