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[–] pigup 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I feel like that statue should look like a real mouse, not a human mouse. Like imagine if a huge species used us as lab testing animals and built a statue of us to honor our sacrifice. But it just looks like one of them, only cartoonishly like a human. You wouldn't like it or feel appreciated. I think if we really did admire the animal we would build a statue of one that actually looks like it.

[–] VisualBuilder4 8 points 8 months ago

In the contrary you could argue, that humanizing them makes it easier to emotionally connect for humans. If that was the intention of the statue it works better that way. But I agree: if the statue would purely be for honoring the mice, it would be more appropriate to look like a real mouse.