Cats, dogs, bears, owls, weasels. Most of them could seriously injure/kill an average human with minor difficulty and yet we find them adorable?

Does not compute.

  • @ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.worldOP
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    145 months ago

    “Where’s the baby!?”

    “Gone. Reduced to atoms.”

    Still kinda wild to me that our preservation instincts can be overridden by something that doesn’t resemble a human in any way outside of a few features.

    • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠
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      65 months ago

      It’s because they evolved to hack our brains, and our brains evolved to be hacked by their smells / sounds / features. ‘Natural selection for reproductive fitness’ is a harsh mistress.