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...why do we find puppies cute?

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[-] shiftymccool@piefed.ca 1 points 5 hours ago

SOME people are selfish and greedy by nature and SOME are not. It's almost like nature creates variation and generalizations about humanity as a whole don't cover the nuance of the individual. Any system that relies on EVEYONE to be a rational, compassionate human will fail beacuse you need to account for the inevitable asshole. There are always assholes

[-] FlordaMan@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

To start off, I don’t think humans are greedy and selfish by nature.

But… humans have evolved to find babies cute so we protect our offspring. And puppies have similar properties to babies (big eyes, soft, small etc.).

[-] oftheair@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)
[-] A404@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago

Like, theres no survival incentive for that.

[-] Rugnjr@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Humans aren't selfish or greedy by nature at all? Have you met humans? Like, not online? Most of them are cool ! If you're having problems with some, just go somewhere where there are other ones, they're all over the place!

[-] Naz@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Compare the markers/facial proportions of human infants with some other infant animals

Seems pretty on the nose

[-] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

No offense, but the puppy is cuter.

Well... didn't we materially benefit tremendously from the domestication of dogs? So it wouldn't make much sense for humans to evolve to like adult dogs but be ambivalent or negative towards puppy dogs because puppies become adults. Also, I'm not a dog owner, but I imagine that you can train a puppy much more thoroughly than an adult dog.

[-] A404@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

Okay but what about cats and rabbits? We keep them as pets too despite them not providing any survival benefit whatsoever.

Cats were useful for pest control, and rabbits made for a convenient source of meat. (Dogs are definitely still used as service animals, e.g. police dogs, guard dogs, etc.)

Like I'm with you that today, the vast majority of cats and rabbits are kept as pets for which there's no "survival" incentive...but there probably was a pragmatic reason to put in the time to domesticate them. Probably. And none of this diminishes my view that we are at least good enough for anarchism.

[-] zloubida@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

Dogs are definitely still used as service animals

And as a convenient source of meat in some regions, and worldwide during emergencies.

[-] Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

So we don't eat them.

this post was submitted on 23 May 2026
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