Many years ago someone gave a talk on the ever expanding sphere of "things we recognize rights too". One of the interesting point was how we tend to humanize "

Many years ago someone gave a talk on the ever expanding sphere of "things we recognize rights too". One of the interesting point was how we tend to humanize "evil" objects which clearly have no intent: being angry at a mouse that does not work, some software that crashes, or feeling the printer hates us. We do seems to have animism as a built-in mental device.