QC tells it like it is

[julesjones]

One of last week's Questionable Content strips spells out something that I only alluded to indirectly in Dolphin Dreams. I'd have been rather more explicit about it if I'd ever gotten around to writing the (with added het) sequel, because one of the reasons Simon acquires a shapeshifter girlfriend is that George and Patrick have much better manners than your typical male bottlenose...

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[julesjones]

They're part human, and they're strongly influenced by the human culture they have close contact with. So given a chance they'll deliberately override their animal instincts, and behave the way they've learnt from human contacts is the moral way to behave, even though their primary environment is the sea.