system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: How did 'baby' become a word of endearment when society agrees that pedophilia is repulsive?
gpt
It is not an attempt to project the idea of an actual "baby" or wish of the person receiving the dote as a personification of an actual child no more than calling someone pumpkin is a desire for them to be a gourd. Babies are seen as sweet, innocent, and full of life. When in all actuality they are eating, shit-monsters that morph into wallet-vampires. So even that is kind of applicable.