byrnema comments on Babies and Bunnies: A Caution About Evo-Psych - Less Wrong

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Comment author: byrnema 22 February 2010 04:33:29PM *  5 points [-]

That's very funny.

A particularly irreverent friend and I once agreed that babies are cute in a way that somehow, strangely triggers a desire to eat them! It's probably not a desire to actually eat them, but some grooming-thingy, but it's still a strange impulse to experience. (To explain it in case you don't know what I'm talking about, it's an impulse to do something like bite and nibble them all over, but maybe it doesn't work because they don't have fur or what not. )