It’s not real, so empathy is not required. Cartoons often have horrifying implications if you look too closely, because they’re not trying to represent reality

If you’re putting yourself in the place of the mother pig, you’re zoomed in to far. The absurdism is in the situation

Think of it this way, if the reason for the child dying was making some parallel to something real, like splitting the family due to deportation… That’s something grounded in reality, it would be horrible

But there is no situation where doctors turn children into meat as a service. The premise is absurd. There’s no danger a real person would ever go through this, this is pure fancy

The mother’s reaction isn’t to laugh at her pain, it’s to let us sit with the moment and let the joke land