I see in this conversation an interesting spot where IRL conversations could diverge into conflicts.
Sprig "it's cool you know your mom though, mine died" part.
He legit seems to be trying to comfort her by pointing out the bright side of her having this memory, as opposed to trying to dismiss her suffering and get attention.
I do sometimes worry if we come across that way when relating our own suffering in response to foid suffering.
Maybe sometimes we do lower ourselves to such a one-dimensional motive, but in other cases I think the problem is that foids will assume we have that motive even when we don't, and take it hostile.
If Anne were a more average foid she might get pissed at Sprig's comment like he's trying to one-up her.
Maybe part of the reason they don't is that they have a strong friendship where she knows his good nature enough not to assume that.
Ideally if we had that kind of relationship and mutual understanding/respect with foids it would help in avoiding those kinds of misunderstandings.
A big problem though is there's rarely chances to develope them due to the hostility we face trying to get foot into door.
Part of that is giving each other a chance... the Plantars gave the wild animal a chance by taking her in and listening to her, and she gave them a chance by not treating them as monsters and humanizing them instead of seeing them as disgusting alien means to an end of returning to Earth.
Maybe those are circumstantial opportunities, and frog-faced humans don't get those chances from IRL girls except in situations when they're cut off from chad and have no alternatives for social interaction?
I legit think some chad-only foids would eventually open up to us if we were stranded on a chadless island for years, but otherwise could go forever without opening the door to friendship or romance with us.
It's that kind of hopeless policy which I think leads many to give up and rope or become kidnappers. I'm not in the "justifying" game, just explaining symptoms of avoidable problems.
Problems which of course are not unilateral, though they may have unequal causality