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In the slim chance that the OP isn't a basic troll: You seem to be asking about the usefulness of empathy or compassion or altruism or whatever. It is potentially more advantageous for the individual to disregard others. However, it is advantageous to our species that the majority of us help others, even if only our close friends and family and derive satisfaction from their happiness and sadness from their disadvantages. As well as intelligence our firm social bonds our one of our species greatest evolutionary advances, which we need being physically vulnerable and long-maturing. If everyone just looked out for themselves and didn't give a poo poo we'd have died out already. In TV shows such as the hit Dexter they like to portray this ideal of the untethered sociopath who is superhuman and able to effortlessly succeed without other people holding him back. Its true some sociopaths succeed but most basically get hoist by their own petard as people stop helping them because they're being douchebags. There are no inherent rights in much the same way as there are no colours or numbers. e: I was watching Hitoshi Iwaaki's Parasyte (2014) and the protagonist has a conversation with his (ironically) symbiotic transforming alien hand who holds the same views as expressed in the OP. Communist Thoughts fucked around with this message at 21:52 on Feb 24, 2015 |
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