Yes deer. I also see them as...things. Their humanity is missing. They have shattered it in their quest for God hood. It is in so many fragments they can not put it back together.

However, I try to deal with them in a short heavy matter not out of cruelty or malice but because there is nothing there to connect with and the only interaction they will truly respond to is the echo of their own insanity.

It is an attempt to spread their disease to others who wish to help them. They attempt to use empathy as a weapon against the bestower of it.

That is in fact how most of them were ruined. Like all abused they are repeating the behavior that damaged them.

I use humor and scathing remarks with them to both warn others of what they are dealing with and to affect the insane with a base enough comment it penetrates past their conscious defenses and forces them to question their behavior.