Millions of workers know what it's like to have their job outsourced to another country. What would be worse than that? Hearing that your job is now being done by an animal.
If you're one of these creators, you have to hate that your lighthearted entertainment now just winds up reminding people of something awful. Especially when websites like this one keep bringing them up.
Humanity became great for two reasons: our ability to create beauty through art, and our urge to build increasingly huge, terrifying gadgets. It only makes sense that these two impulses would converge in amazing, if largely useless, ways.
There's no easier way to make a movie character likeable than by having him heroically sacrifice his own life. Of course, sometimes 'heroically' means 'stupidly.'
Just because they're titans of business and leaders of nations, that doesn't mean grown men are above letting some name-calling influence their decisions.
