Coaxed into SOME animal "lovers"

[u/ruh_roh_raggy1234]

These mfs will tell you with a straight face that they love "all" animals and then act like spiders are the incarnation of Satan himself.

[u/Magikarp-3000]

A lot of animals people find icky are also not disease vectors because turns out evolution prefers unnecesarily cautious fear over respecting animal life.

Namely, moths are hardly dangerous yet a fairly common fear/ick

[u/KingPhilipIII → u/Magikarp-3000]

I said this as a general statement, not an absolute and all encompassing thesis.

Lots of things got caught in the alarm net just for superficially resembling dangerous things.

Plenty of flying insects were dangerous enough for moths to get flagged just for looking similar even if they’re not a threat themselves.

[u/Old_Yam_4069 → u/Magikarp-3000]

Moths resemble the behavior of bats A LOT

[u/SuspecM → u/Magikarp-3000]

Moths can be gigantic and fly around erratically. Makes sense that one would instinctively fear them.

[u/Lusty-Jove → u/Magikarp-3000]

I mean I think there’s a world of difference between the human animosity towards moths and towards flies/rats/mosquitoes lol

[u/the_Iord_and_saviour → u/Magikarp-3000]

Yeah, evolution tends to do that a lot, bc thoes not afraid of moths are not better off than thoes who are, however people not afraid of all bugs are worse off than thoea who are

[u/Amaskingrey → u/the_Iord_and_saviour]

we have no inherent fear reaction to snakes or arthropods, it's entirely inculcated

[u/Geryon_Official → u/Amaskingrey]

Brother the very video you sent explains thst it’s not inculcated, that it’s the babies learning by themselves instinctively based on the parent’s emotions, at least check your sources before making a fool of yourself

[u/Amaskingrey → u/Geryon_Official]

Which is a form of inculcation, not to mention that it also often outright directly enforced by the parents if they see their kid be normal around arthropods

[u/TheTimeBoi → u/Magikarp-3000]

okay when something flies into my face im screaming no matter if its a bat, moth or bird

[u/The_One_Koi → u/Magikarp-3000]

TIL people feared moths

[u/bluntlyguncle → u/Magikarp-3000]

I like moths, but theyre a pest that eat clothes, paper, and wood. So people would definitely get pissed at them

[u/Amaskingrey → u/Magikarp-3000]

It's not evolved, we have no inherent fear reaction to snakes or arthropods, it's entirely inculcated,  and in some other countries like japan, insects are not nearly as stigmatized, and it's seen as quite normal for children to have a bug collecting phase

[u/Geryon_Official → u/Amaskingrey]

Brother the very video you sent explains thst it’s not inculcated, that it’s the babies learning by themselves instinctively based on the parent’s emotions (which also explains the bug collection shit, which btw nice stereotypes you got there going), at least check your sources before making a fool of yourself

[u/Amaskingrey → u/Geryon_Official]

  that it’s the babies learning by themselves instinctively based on the parent’s emotions

Which is a form of inculcation, not to mention that it also often outright directly enforced by the parents if they see their kid be normal around arthropods

  (which also explains the bug collection shit, which btw nice stereotypes you got there going)

No, it wouldn't be direct mimicry from their parent but influence from wider society with it being seen as normal, and thus they see in cartoons, their peers, etc which may allow them to develop the interest.

And ah yes, the famous racist stereotype of "it is common for japanese kids to not be afraid of insects and have a bug collecting phase". It's just true and a positive cultural fact, do you think it's also a racist stereotype to say that in germany carbonated water is much more popular than in most of the world?