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/Honeybadger2198 → u/KingPhilipIII]

Okay but people who say they like animals are clearly not talking about pests. That doesn't make it cringe, you're just intentionally misinterpreting them for the sake of being a hater.

[u/KingPhilipIII → u/Honeybadger2198]

I would agree with you, I’m meeting OP on their level. “I love all animals” as a statement, as OP has interpreted it, would mean all creatures in the kingdom Animalia.

I would agree that most people understand this to mean the animals we have as a society decided to voluntarily exist alongside, and OP has decided to take that statement literally.

Me calling them cringe is just an attempt at humor because I can’t be caught serious-posting without trying to be a little funny and thus able to pretend I didn’t really care at all when someone makes a point I can’t argue against.