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minus-squarescratchee@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·20 days agoYes, it’s empathy plus anthropomorphising. There’s nothing wrong with refusing to anthropomorphise, but for the people who do, the empathy is real, even if the characters are not.
minus-squarebig_fat_fluffy@leminal.spacelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-220 days agoWrong? I didn’t say anything about wrong. I said they’re different. Worlds apart in fact. One is evoked by an imaginary person. The other is evoked by a real person. It’s as different as bananas and banana-emojis. Wait, nevermind. I am a worm
minus-squareconfusedbytheBasics@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·19 days ago anthropomorphising How so? Everyone in the comic looks like the same species to me.
minus-squarescratchee@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·19 days agoI guess they are all cat-related. Simba would be the singing gorilla of the cat world.
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Yes, it’s empathy plus anthropomorphising. There’s nothing wrong with refusing to anthropomorphise, but for the people who do, the empathy is real, even if the characters are not.
Wrong? I didn’t say anything about wrong.
I said they’re different. Worlds apart in fact.
One is evoked by an imaginary person. The other is evoked by a real person.
It’s as different as bananas and banana-emojis.
Wait, nevermind. I am a worm
I guess they are all cat-related.
Simba would be the singing gorilla of the cat world.