Re:San Francisco's homelessness is a humanitarian crisis
by JumpCrisscross on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @06:32PM
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> weird that people love babies then
There is a lot of research on this. It's a deep, fascinating rabbit hole and I don't know its contours well enough to flag the entrances. But it touches subjects like mammalian postpartum depression, infanticide in great apes, why the characters :) make one go "aww," cute aggression and a host of other matters.
To address your point a bit more head on, I imagine public reactions to a publicly-defecating child would be very different from those to an adult.
There is a lot of research on this. It's a deep, fascinating rabbit hole and I don't know its contours well enough to flag the entrances. But it touches subjects like mammalian postpartum depression, infanticide in great apes, why the characters :) make one go "aww," cute aggression and a host of other matters.
To address your point a bit more head on, I imagine public reactions to a publicly-defecating child would be very different from those to an adult.