An evolutionary flaw

I understand that people find large eyes cute because cuteness is about the only thing keeping us from abandoning stinky loud babies. However, why does this large eye induced cuteness reaction occur even with other mammals. I remember when I was younger, I saw my cat sitting on the carpet in dim light. Its pupils were dilated and this made the eyes look really big. Of course, I thought the cat looked cute so I went to pet it. Bad decision and I still have the faint scar to prove it. It appears that our evolutionary drive to protect cute things extends to other mammals as well, especially their young. Of course, approaching wild animals especially young animals is a bad idea since their parents also find them cute and will do anything possible to protect this cuteness. I wonder how many stupid people (who feed baby bears or climb over zoo fences) will have too die before humans evolve to a point where they are unengaged by babies of other mammal species? Unfortunately for us, natural selection takes a long time to work.