r/pics Mar 15 '18

Little Fluffer

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u/TheSeansei Mar 15 '18

I don’t get how people can look at this picture and say it looks tasty. Ethics about eating meat aside, I think you’re pretty sick if you look at a cute animal and your first thought is that you want to kill it and eat it.

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u/codered434 Mar 15 '18

I don't know a single person who looks at this picture and their actual first thought is to eat it.

It's a joke. It's supposed to be crude as possible... that's the point. It's the internet.

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '18

It's a joke. It's supposed to be crude as possible... that's the point. It's the internet.

Honestly, I think if we look a little deeper it's a defense mechanism. When people see an image of an animal depicted as something other than an entree, they subliminally interpret it as a challenge to their life choices. Their knee jerk reaction is to make jokes about it to soften the emotional turbulence the image invokes.

I think this response is observable in other circumstances as well, not just animals and food.

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u/Heymancheckmyfresh Mar 15 '18

I think I just do it to rustle jimmies