Anthropomorphism

Ah yes. A term that encompasses everything from Furries to me talking to my dog

This isfascinating and beautiful concept to me, how wonderful it is that we push our own personhood onto other things and are able to characterize and love them, it's even more fascinating that other animals are seemingly doing the same thing to us! There's just something to living in a world where we see everything as being like to us... It does lose points however because even though it is this amazing thing oftentimes the way we anthropomorphize certain things or animals can cause them harm in the way that people treat them.