If most humans love babies, and animal babies too ...
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warpus
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Because miracles are disgusting.
Evie
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For humans, because nekkid ladybits (so prudishness) not being used for sex (so lack of countervailing interest)
For animals, in some cases the same, but mostly because nobody want to see sausages being made.
For animals, in some cases the same, but mostly because nobody want to see sausages being made.
BvBPL
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Same reason you don't want to see sausage being made.
Aleksey_aka_al
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I don't like babies at all. Ugly little things.
Perfection
The Great Head.
Evolutionary adaptation to promote avoidance of disease riddled body fluids.
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The Great Head.
What if they wore beekeeper suita spray painted purple?
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Why do we even find baby animals cute? Is it because they remind us of our own babies which we evolved to endear?
That's most of it.
Except I don't happen to find most human babies cute. I'm a pushover for most kittens, though.
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Who's horrified at seeing childbirth? I most certainly am not. But I can't say I'd pay good money to watch it.
A face transplant, though... I'm not so keen on watching one of those.
Nor do I like to see people being shot, crucified, tortured or just plain bombed.
A face transplant, though... I'm not so keen on watching one of those.
Nor do I like to see people being shot, crucified, tortured or just plain bombed.
warpus
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Probably because they're generally harmless and cuddly. No need for any evolutionary traits to come about involving the fear of newly born animals, so perhaps the opposite evolved instead. Plus they are generally fairly defenseless - and we have a strong sense of empathy.
Cheetah
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I favor the explanation that young vertebrates have larger facial features compared to their body size than what grown ones do, and that we're evolutionary programmed to like these enlarged facial features because those of our ancestors who did generally took more care of their offspring and thus the offspring had a greater chance of reproducing.
So in our minds, larger facial features are connected to concepts like youth, immaturity, helplessness, innocence and so on. So facial features like large eyes or mouths can often be seen as attractive (another reason is that they show of emotions more easily). Also notice how many types of cartoons will depict the younger/immature characters with larger eyes and other facial features, while the older/wiser characters could be depicted with smaller features.
Large mouths are attractive? I think they are neutral.
Never mind that, is it also attractive for one to have twice the head to thorax/torso ratio of a normal adult? Cause that is what infants have
I'm the same way, although even more so with puppies. Babies are obnoxious, oozing with bodily fluids, and generally ugly.
I bet if you polled people who don't have kids of their own, you'd find they find puppies and kittens much cuter than babies on average. Assuming this is right, I wonder why this is. I'd understand if there was some effect that caused humans to associate puppies and kittens with babies and find them all cute, but the fact that many people find puppies and kittens more cute than babies makes me think that something else must be going on.
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I'm adding another vote for not finding human babies remotely appealing.
warpus
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Human babies are ugly, unless you are actually related to them, in which case they are cute.
