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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

anthropomorphising How so? Everyone in the comic looks like the same species to me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I guess they are all cat-related.

Simba would be the singing gorilla of the cat world.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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