{"id":11207,"date":"2025-07-22T17:28:42","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T21:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/casual-cruelty\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T17:28:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T21:28:42","slug":"casual-cruelty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/casual-cruelty\/","title":{"rendered":"Casual cruelty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/hop.clickbank.net\/?affiliate=infohatch&amp;vendor=J1R2C\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10614 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px.png\" alt=\"Profit Gen\" width=\"400\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px.png 400w, https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px-300x163.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>Is it okay to dress your cat in a ridiculous costume? <\/p>\n<p>What about giving a poodle a haircut that subjects him to ridicule?<\/p>\n<p>The cat and the dog probably don&#8217;t know or care, but we think less of their person if it happens.<\/p>\n<p>At Disney, the costumed characters need security guards. Kids (and more often) adults would bother or even pinch the characters, figuring that if they were in costume, they weren&#8217;t people so it didn&#8217;t count.<\/p>\n<p>I was having tea with a wealthy investor a few months ago and was disturbed that he never thanked or acknowledged the hard-working folks who were serving us. They didn&#8217;t feel real to him, apparently.<\/p>\n<p>In the classic ramen movie <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/6WrkdTrrwew?si=CfxKWG3iXqD7c9d9\">Tampopo<\/a>, we&#8217;re taught that we should acknowledge the ingredients in our bowl before eating. Not because the food knows, but because we do.<\/p>\n<p>And now each of us has a choice to make when we&#8217;re using AI. Do we say thank you? Treat it with contempt? Should we imagine that it&#8217;s fully inanimate like an ATM, even though we&#8217;re busy anthropomorphizing it? One day, it&#8217;ll be a commonplace tool. But right now, it feels like more than that.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, I say please and thank you to Claude. Not because I think it can tell, but because I can. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hop.clickbank.net\/?affiliate=infohatch&amp;vendor=J1R2C\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10614 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px.png\" alt=\"Profit Gen\" width=\"400\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px.png 400w, https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px-300x163.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it okay to dress your cat in a ridiculous costume? What about giving a poodle a haircut that subjects him to ridicule? The cat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-purpose"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}