Some people might, yeah. Humans don't always treat what they don't understand very well. It's the same problem with a lot of endangered species and their inhabitants, back home. People don't understand them, so they mistreat them, and we start to lose them...

[He's silent for a moment, then smiled weakly.] Like in anythin' else though, all you have to do is find the right people. For every unkind person there's three with the biggest hearts. You just gotta meet the right souls, and make friends.