Nah, not through association. I think what makes you like a human is that you were made by a human. Not just a human, but one of the most "human" people I've ever met.
Toasters don't care about the people who make them or use them. They'll burn your bread or your fingers or your house or whatever if you don't take care of them. I bet if you could make a toaster talk, it wouldn't really care. It'd just be like, hey, your toast is done. Dude, are you listening? Look, now it's burning. Ding ding if you don't get your toast the house will burn down. Oh shit, I'm on fire. Ding ding.
But you care--and that's a human trait. Well, a sentient being trait? Animals care, too, but comparing you to an animal would be insulting you and putting that animal up on a pedestal it couldn't ever hope to live up to. Even the dolphins.
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Toasters don't care about the people who make them or use them. They'll burn your bread or your fingers or your house or whatever if you don't take care of them. I bet if you could make a toaster talk, it wouldn't really care. It'd just be like, hey, your toast is done. Dude, are you listening? Look, now it's burning. Ding ding if you don't get your toast the house will burn down. Oh shit, I'm on fire. Ding ding.
But you care--and that's a human trait. Well, a sentient being trait? Animals care, too, but comparing you to an animal would be insulting you and putting that animal up on a pedestal it couldn't ever hope to live up to. Even the dolphins.