Here’s a simple way of crystallizing the politics of “anthropomorphics”: there is a vertical axis and a horizontal axis; on the vertical axis, we start with the minimal model of an issuer of imperatives that include the presumption of obedience (as opposed to imperatives—like those of the petitioner—that include no such presumption) and what one wants is that those imperatives be fulfilled, which means they are “well formed” and situationally “actionable,” are transmitted in a way included in the command, and received by those taking the intention implicit in the command as their own.