And I don't just mean dogs and cats. It sometimes seems like we have an instinct to want to pet most animals, both animals we eat and who could eat us, as long as they wouldn't kill us for it.
What is the evolutionary reason for this?
Why do humans love animals so much
fluffy
Only losers who can't form proper relationships with other people care about animals
>we have an instinct to want to pet most animals
It's indeed an instinct.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuteness
Should we hate them instead? I eat some of them and keep others as pet. It is what it is.
Because they cute bro
Yes, even bears
1) we have limbs which allows us to pet in great detail
2) it's an extension of neoteny as a survival strategy
Kinda cringe but it explains it well
You discount the uncanny valley that primates sit in. I fucking hate primates.
>I fucking hate primates
have a nice day
The smarter something is the more capable it is of being deliberately cruel
Apes should scare people
Apes do scare me, fuck them bro. Chimpanzees particularly
This. I don't understand people who find them cute at all.
Not everyone is here for the same reasons as you, anon.
>Humans love ~~*~~*(animals*~~*~~))
Humans love mammals who can emote and are genetically similar to use, omnivores at that
>They love birds and fish because they are pretty except for very rare large breeds of bird or the smart ones those pass as one of us
>Loving a spider makes you a freak
>Loving a fish makes you a freak
>Loving a sneak makes you a freak
Humanity's love us extremely biased
>the smart ones those pass as one of us
What?
>be social hunter
>move to northern environment
>no longer tripping over food
>harsh winters, few plant foods
>more pressure on you to survive, right now, no time to fuck around
>evolve broader sense of empathy to predict prey better
>humans are patient hunters who stalk and track animals for days and make extensive use of traps. plotting is predation.
>now able to learn from other predatory animals and improve your skills
>suddenly becomes super useful as befriending some animals increases your hunt success rate
>becomes SUPER useful as befriending some other animals provides infinite food and impressive transportation
you see a lot of empathy for animals in east asians too. you need to know they're suffering to enjoy their suffering.
>evolve broader sense of empathy to predict prey better
Empathy is not telepathy
It’s all dem advanced white human alien genes.
It’s why Africans and Asians generally don’t love animals the same way, but they will learn and develop eventually on their own in a far less chaotic environment.
We are living things that recognize a desire to see other living things prosper. Don't need to be a hippie and take lsd to figure that out.
But most humans actually want to see other living things being ruined and destroyed
>source: Dude trust me
Open google maps, zoom on any piece of land that looks like a grid and realize how much life has been destroyed to create that
The modern world wasn't created via majority consensus
Okay I just zoomed into Nevada on a place that used to be just sand.
Deserts aren't just sand.
North American deserts in particular are home to some of the most unique plants in the world and to lots of endemic animal species.
well good for them, but I need to eat so we're planting wheat and corn there
That just proved
's point lol
I think because it ties into furfag shit and believing you are an animal. There is still some remnants within us from when we were not so different from other animals that surfaces in our flawed minds that anthropomorphizes them or sees them as peers. Evolution rarely outright removes things and just keeps building ontop of whats there.
>believing you are an animal
It's a fact, not a belief
>believing you are an animal.
Fungal appendages typed this post.
we're all just a bunch of animals going through the same shit
more alike than different
That’s fucked up.
There's no evolutionary advantage to be cold towards (non-dangerous) animals. So the answer is: they cute
they cute
becaus God said unto adam that he should be master over all the animals or because mammal herd instincts are not that precise
This. And if it weren't for Adam and Eve sinning, we could keep all the giant huggable grizzlies we'd ever want without fear of them murdering us. Literal real life Pokemon without the fighting.
But instead we get mauled by badgers, great.
Fuckin' talking ribs ruining everything
*women and reptile owners
>What is the evolutionary reason for this?
Probably an impetus to domesticate animals and thus using them as a food source.
then why do we grow so attached to said food source? Wouldn't it be easier if she evolved not to feel compassion for livestock animals
Probably some kind of nurturing instinct that just goes in a direction that was not intentional. Kinda like how we can recognize the subtlest of human emotions and facial expressions to the point where we see faces in places where they don't exist (like the face on the moon or jesus showing up in toast).
good points
>then why do we grow so attached to said food source?
We are all genetic defects
>then why do we grow so attached to said food source?
Happy animals taste better.
Not all animals are food sources. Most cultures didn't eat dogs and cats (inb4 some historian anon barges in saying they totally did and that's just something people don't like to talk about). So we treated them differently than livestock. And then I guess our retarded brain made the association that livestock by itself is not that different from the animals we don't eat.
Comfy lifestyle maybe?