>>11598733If your kid is cute, and just looking at it trigger the dopamine to flow, you would be less likely to kill it/eat it, and more likely to take care of it. That is also why a baby's cry is so irritating, because it was specifically evolved to be annoying, so the parent doesn't ignore it, but not annoying enough that the parent kills it to shut it up.
The science of aesthetics is a very interesting one, one that we are still finding new and fascinating discoveries in the human mind about