I regret not having the time to read all the comments before class, but, in addition to our culture which does anthropomorphize wee bitty aminals, we don’t have the acquired distaste or taste for eating or repelling rabbits.
My mother is a gardner, likes puppies, kittens, etc, and hates rabbits. She’s said a person will find them cute until they keep ripping up your flower bed.
It seems plausible that having been starving and relieved by rabbit meat a few times, a person would think “Yum!” upon seeing a rabbit.
Perhaps our cute instinct is slightly misaimed, we lack most of the normal associations we would gain from these animals, and in reverse have gained large associations in the other direction, exploding a slight evolutionary mistake. Common kids shows might have more difficulty in making babies super cute, being that some of their audience are infants themselves. Then they’d feature adorable, wittle bittle...”you”s?
I regret not having the time to read all the comments before class, but, in addition to our culture which does anthropomorphize wee bitty aminals, we don’t have the acquired distaste or taste for eating or repelling rabbits.
My mother is a gardner, likes puppies, kittens, etc, and hates rabbits. She’s said a person will find them cute until they keep ripping up your flower bed.
It seems plausible that having been starving and relieved by rabbit meat a few times, a person would think “Yum!” upon seeing a rabbit.
Perhaps our cute instinct is slightly misaimed, we lack most of the normal associations we would gain from these animals, and in reverse have gained large associations in the other direction, exploding a slight evolutionary mistake. Common kids shows might have more difficulty in making babies super cute, being that some of their audience are infants themselves. Then they’d feature adorable, wittle bittle...”you”s?