For instance, where a human is treated or talked to “like an object”, but I think it’s just humans affirming themselves due to a lack of confidence otherwise! Even if it is brutal honesty like calling a human an animal, which is scientifically true, some may still get accused of dehumanization. (True case: one of my classmates got punished by a teacher for this.) This leads to somewhat illogical things like "respecting" even the dead. Rather, humans are almost always biased to like their own kind. After all, the right to live that we have, instead of other poor animals, is likely due to this.