Thank you! I got to it through evolutionary psychology. Because it seems like just about every culture thinks small fluffy animals are cute to some degree. Mainstream science tells us it's a side effect of needing to think babies are cute, and I buy that explanation. But what that means is, thinking small animals are cute is so imperative to the survival of the species, it got genetically hardcoded. Anything that ALL humans do seems to be in the genes, seems to bear some relationship to survival. And I know kittens aren't human babies and the reasons aren't the same, but the impact is still visible: our political instincts for young-preservation have a big impact on our world. Our genes gave us these politics because they're important.