prosocial

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/will-you-rat-me-out/ "Mason placed rats in pens with two cages: in one was another rat; in the other was a pile of chocolate chips. The unhindered rats could easily have eaten the chocolate themselves. Instead most of the rodents opened both cages and shared the sweets. “In rat land, that is big,” Mason says. This is the first study to show altruistic behavior in rodents. “The bottom line,” Mason says, “is that helping an individual in distress is part of our biology.” 

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maybe only with the higher intelligence you become a "selfish individual"?

that is a sad thought...

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curious on what you meant here? (i feel we share similar social values, this is not a confrontation)

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it was more an intuition. I was thinking about the myriad ways we explain away our indifference to all the pain and injustice we know about, and I realise that with the deeper knowledge and higher intelligence - we become better and better with those explanations... 

In that respect rats can be better than us.

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