anthropomorphism

pollution

survival

is the tendency to characterize animals, objects, and abstract concepts as possessing human-like traits, emotions, and intentions.

Anthropomorphism is The tendency to characterize animals, objects, and abstract concepts as possessing human-like traits, emotions, and intentions.

is always treated with arbitrary boundaries. We can let elephants be hungry when they look hungry, but we have trouble allowing that they are happy when they look happy.

We can let elephants be hungry when they look hungry, but we have trouble allowing that they are happy when they look happy.35 That, for some reason, would be anthropomorphic and therefore bad. (What if worrying about anthropomorphism were itself a perfect example of human behavior, namely … anthropomorphism?) It’s interesting that we think sheer survival (hence hunger) is more “real” than a quality of existing, such as being happy. Just surviving, hunger, are supposedly “real” conditions, by which we mean nothing to do with being human in particular.

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anthropomorphism