"What do you need boy robes for?" inquires Madam Malkins.
"I'm sometimes a boy," the girl explains.
"What?"
"Look—"
She takes the frog and omnoms.
"That's cool! I didn't meet anyone. Well, now I met you two."
"Probably! Ish. They seem like people. I haven't actually spoken to – I mean, I don't know much about portraits."
"Right, but, if they're designed to act like people then presumably they wouldn't just say they weren't people."
"Well if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, I think it's safe to think it is in fact a duck!"
"It doesn't matter where they are, the important part about being a person isn't having a body it's having a mind."
"– That's not what I meant? I mean, a photo is just of a duck and it's on repeat and the duck isn't actually thinking or anything, and I thought portraits were sorta like that but… a bit more interactive."
Anthony shrugs. "It depends on why you're classing it a person? If it's 'should I treat them well and give them respect like a person' then clearly the answer is yes, you should treat them well."
"No, it's 'I should respect their stated desires and include them in my decisions about what courses of action bring the most good in the world.'"
"Is this back to the taking over the world thing? Or – does this also apply to the less enthusiastic of us?"