People have anthropomorphised and attached sentimental value to musical instruments and other artistic instruments since the beginning of civilization. Just because someone writes an academic paper claiming it's a disorder doesn't mean we should care what they have to say.

https://cellomuseum.org/the-photographer-and-the-cellist-doi...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucille_(guitar)

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/feb/20/it-feels-like-...

https://psmag.com/economics/the-benefits-of-bonding-with-a-m...

There's a big difference between "I give my guitar a name" and "Seeing a commercial where a trumpet gets squished is the same as my own pet being tortured".

Let's not pretend you didn't say "Watching a musical instrument get crushed is like watching a pet getting tortured".

This reads like you're accusing somebody of having a mental disorder after failing to understand their metaphor.

It's a troll and/or GPT. Getting lectured by "CyberDildonics" about attachment to objects is just a little too on the nose. It has to be a joke.

Remember when I predicted that you would attack me and attack 'how I asked' for evidence instead of actually explaining how watching a commercial of a trumpet being mushed is the same as watching your own pet being tortured?

That is what just happened, right on queue.

;)

A metaphor would be "the boy was a cat as he tip toed quietly through the house".

You're thinking about what reasonable people would say and mean, but these people actually want to say that seeing a trumpet getting flattened in a commercial is the same as watching your own pet be tortured. Why that is, is anyone's guess. Maybe to seem sensitive and deep.