Rather than anthropomorphizing, which is to crudely project a human-like mind on to the differently animate, I seek to expand that category we honor with the privilege of being; to welcome alien selves with an alien, untranslatable sense of “I” and “we” into the ranks of those we hold precious: so that their lives have a right to be, their choices and conduct a right to be considered and their destruction and dissolution a sense of gravity and tragedy.