[pharrington]

What I'm probably missing indeed is that scoping of universality to humans. Lately I've been trying to be more explicit in my written communications in an attempt to understand both the limits of my knowledge and perceptions and the limits of the sources of information that I digest.

Is suggesting that pleasantness is a sentiment that's not unique to humans really that controversial?

super late edit: it's specifically flowers, not plants, that people are biased towards finding pleasant