There's nothing cynic about it: he who spares the wolf sacrifices the sheep. My kid loves plushies: but when she's playing with a white tiger I'm reminding her that in real-life the tiger would shred her to tear and eat her without any afterthought.
Plushies of dangerous animals, just like that ad, are a way to cope with the brutality of nature, not a way to make nature not brutal.
There's nothing cynic about it: he who spares the wolf sacrifices the sheep. My kid loves plushies: but when she's playing with a white tiger I'm reminding her that in real-life the tiger would shred her to tear and eat her without any afterthought.
Plushies of dangerous animals, just like that ad, are a way to cope with the brutality of nature, not a way to make nature not brutal.