[29athrowaway]

Legally, Superman is undistinguishable from an object until granted personhood, or declared something else, like property or an animal.

[anonymouskimmer]

He was granted personhood with his adoption papers.

[29athrowaway]

If I adopt a cat from a shelter that doesn't make it a person.

[anonymouskimmer]

You don't get human adoption papers when buying cats from shelters. It's not even an adoption, per se, when it's a cat, we just call it that. Sam I am.