we're great at projecting our own humanity and recognizing its reflection
generally we're poor at recognizing and accepting the humanity of others
if anything, our minds process that as uncanny and "wrong" in the manner of a distorted photo, and compel us to error-check and dismantle everything that fails to reassure us by looking as we expectβto dismiss whatever doesn't resemble the reflection we're used to seeing as, at best, a mistake
inhuman and fictional constructs are easy; we can see ourselves in those just fine, ignore whatever doesn't fit, and we usually don't have to worry about them arguing back
