/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Regarding the yukkuri, on the one hand they can be very cute in some circumstances.

However, I cannot fault people who carry out campaigns of extermination against them: after all, this isn't any worse than our policy of unrestricted extermination against other lower life forms that disgust or inconvenience us. Aside from their capability for speech, most stories show them as having less intelligence than pigs or cattle. The ability to visually recognize members of the same herd; the ability to recognize different types of threats and respond to them in different manners; the ability to moderate their reproduction in times of scarce resources; yukkuri are slightly below the level of insects.