opinions / cuteness of kitten

[mollykins]

Why do humans have opinions?

and more importantly why do matters such as whether a kitten is cute cause people to have opinions? It won't be that you were brought up that way such as an opinion on religion could be caused.

[mollykins]

i thought you would hurl abuse in anger because of that.

No it is scientific. I want to know why things look cute and if it is natural or if you are brought it to think certain things are orif you learnit or i don't know and thats why i'm asking.

[B00]

Mollykins- did you read that Blog in the link I gave?

It said something along the lines that because of large eyes etc, a baby anything makes us think it's cute and therefore we're are more than likely care for it, i'e clean up its poop than we would for an adult, who might not be so cute looking.

[MrHurlAbuse]

Defo a good question molly,maybe its someting in our genetic makeup that is there to stop us killing our offspring and this "gene" or "feeling" also kicks in whenever we see the offspring of animals especially when they are smaller and vunerable,sad big brown eyes and fluffy fur also helps! lol!

[Robb Phoenix]

Why do humans have opinions? Opinions are i believe exclusive to humans so Opinions make us human.......
Cute cues are those that indicate extreme youth, vulnerability, harmlessness and need like those of an infant child...we tend to link that to animals like kittens or koalas or monkeys etc.
It makes good darwinian sense as human infants are so helpless by themselves that human beings must be wired to respond quickly and gamely to any and all signs of infantile desire.
Our cuteness bar is set so low that we deem everything which even suggests a human baby to be cute thus attracting attention....A kitten would thus be viewed as 'cute' anywhere (except perhaps by people with degenerate mental abilities)--- wont you view a chick or a calf or a piglet cute eventhough you consume chicken,ham and pork..

[LazyGun]

The ability to recognise immature members and have that recognition trigger a nurturing response is pretty common amongst most primates and to a lesser extent in other mammals. There are various physiological and behavioural triggers of our nurturing response, the basic desire to protect the young, and humans respond to those triggers because they resemble those found in human offspring - large eyes, large head in relation to the body,clumsy movements, playfulness etc. Its an evolutionary response, our species changing to recognise those features specific to our young.

Gorillas have also been seen to exhibit such a nurturing response to young of another species - At least one "adopting" a baby kitten, and in one other instance a female gorilla protecting a young human child who had fallen into a gorilla enclosure.

[MrHurlAbuse]

What those guys said^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

[mollykins]

boo i did read your link but i started typin my next post before you posted it so i did't see it.

[mollykins]

the rabbit was very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very cute

[wolf63]

Puppies were the cutest, then the kittie.

What I read in Boo's link agrees with what I have previously read.

I don't find babies cute - they all look the same. Kittens and puppies are cute though. Some human babies are ugly.