>>81807163 (OP)
My highest kin is the Minecraft pig.
No other mob in Minecraft more closely matches what is 'essentially' me than the Pig. The Minecraft pig is inert. It is harmless. It does not seek food, or shelter, or betterment, and it also does not run from danger unless it is directly harmed. The pig does 'want'--it does accept food, in fact, all of what it has it has accepted from donation. If you wave a carrot in front of it, it will walk towards you, hopeful, yet not expectant. When the carrot is taken away, the pig wanders off, indifferent to your actions.
But this is not all there is to the Pig. Unlike all other passive mobs, the Pig offers the player nothing in its life except what is compelled. The Pig can easily offer its meager value as an incredibly inefficient form of labor, but this only when the carrot and stick are directly present--when it is compelled. The Pig will not, of his own accord, seek out a place where he may walk a certain distance to receive a certain number of carrots. This implies some overarching will. Instead, the carrot and stick must be brought to the Pig, it must be compelled to act by direct external force, and will return to its inert wandering once the force is no longer present. The Pig is inert.
Finally, the Pig is always waiting for THAT moment, the 'change' the moment that he goes from an essentially inert being to one with a will of its own, the Lightning strike. Sure, the lightning may strike, it may one day become ITS OWN, but almost none will experience this spiritual transformation; The Pig will live out its meager existence, it will die, and the only value that will come from it will be on the day of its death.
