r/aww • u/thetinydancer1 • 5h ago

Our Pomeranian plays Bruiser Woods in Legally Blonde. She waits for her cue, then walks onstage all by herself

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u/MothmanIsALiar 4h ago

Anthropomorphize is a nonsense word because humans are animals.

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u/Cactuas 4h ago

It's not nonsense to point out that animals are usually not experiencing certain situations exactly as humans would. We are all animals and we all experience emotions, but it's a leap to assume dogs experience the same emotions as humans do, just as it would be a leap to assume a cat experiences the same emotions as a dog.

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u/MothmanIsALiar 3h ago

I think its silly to assume that emotions are new rather than an integral part of the evolutionary experience. I have emotions. Chimps have emotions. Why wouldn't squirrels have emotions? We all have a common ancestor.

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u/Cactuas 3h ago

Yes, all animals have emotions. But that doesn't mean animals always experience or express emotions the same way that humans do.

For example, a person who doesn't know anything about dogs might see a dog panting and think "Oh, that dog is smiling, it must be happy." In reality the dog is panting because it's hot, not because it's happy. That's anthropomorphization.