[maxwell_smart]

On the flip side, I remember reading a story of a parent listening to their child bark orders at Siri/Alexa, and thinking that even though there's no need for politeness, they felt that maybe they should teach their child to treat it kindly and politely for the sake of the child's emotional development in terms of empathy.

[mdp2021]

History of cultivation is full of examples in which the practitioner willingly attributes qualities to some object - to the intentional benefit of the practitioner, and never involving cognitive mistake.