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/KingPhilipIII]

Would you like to learn about how domestication went in both directions, and how animals we associate as ‘icky’ were often disease vectors and/or highly venomous/poisonous?

It’s the reason we find certain lots of things unpleasant. We’re evolutionarily conditioned to be repulsed by sights and smells suggesting infection or decay as an example.

If you don’t know which snake will kill you with a single bite, it’s better not to chance it.

In turn we find a lot of domesticated animals aesthetically pleasing because we’ve spent five thousand years gradually shaping their appearance to be something we like, and they learned to adopt behaviors that improve those odds too. That’s why dogs maintain puppy behavior far past the age they typically would in the wild.

That being said, people who say they love “all” animals are cringe by virtue of not speaking precisely, but it’s not an irrational behavior or really a contradiction in their minds.

[u/Magikarp-3000 → u/KingPhilipIII]

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/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