Bypassing the hardness of objects made creatures

[Raishoiken]

Should abilities that allow you to overcome the hardness of objects also extend to animated objects/creatures that keep hardness due to being a sentient object (theoretically intelligent magic items and idk.. robots or something)?

And specifically hardness, not necessarily applying to the DR of regular old constructs

[The Viscount]

Hardness is hardness, something that overcomes one should definitely overcome the other. To be honest I find it questionable that animated objects have hardness to begin with, but that's another matter.