The final con - getting to believe inanimate objects are not.
Just the appearance of something being sentient, real, deosn't make it so. but people will bend their minds to accommodate it, and to accept it.
Insanity.
I would say sheep, but sheep have waaaaay more sense...
Much of humanity is emotionally damaged. In Japan, it's not too strange to see a person waking around with a lifelike sex doll, treating it like a person with whom they're sharing a relationship. I.e. Go to the park, shop for shoes, have a nice dinner.
It's a sad state of affairs. The power of human abstraction is impressive.
It is infantile, though.
Literally children in grown up bodies.
Decadence coming home to roost....