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Post by daisy on Sept 21, 2006 12:53:56 GMT -5
well i could be alot of things i could even be cerebral - yet i am not totally narcissistic i do believe in altruism "Man, no doubt, owes many other moral duties to his fellow men; such as to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, shelter the homeless, care for the sick, protect the defenceless, assist the weak, and enlighten the ignorant. But these are simply moral duties, of which each man must be his own judge, in each particular case, as to whether, and how, and how far, he can, or will, perform them."
Groups composed only or mainly of selfish organisms go extinct, leaving behind groups containing altruists.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altruism__
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Post by daisy on Sept 21, 2006 13:22:45 GMT -5
Altruistic behaviour is common throughout the animal kingdom, particularly in species with complex social structures. For example, vampire bats regularly regurgitate blood and donate it to other members of their group who have failed to feed that night, ensuring they do not starve.
In numerous bird species, a breeding pair receives help in raising its young from other ‘helper’ birds, who protect the nest from predators and help to feed the fledglings.
Vervet monkeys give alarm calls to warn fellow monkeys of the presence of predators, even though in doing so they attract attention to themselves, increasing their personal chance of being attacked.
In social insect colonies (ants, wasps, bees and termites), sterile workers devote their whole lives to caring for the queen, constructing and protecting the nest, foraging for food, and tending the larvae. Such behaviour is maximally altruistic: sterile workers obviously do not leave any offspring of their own -- so have personal fitness of zero -- but their actions greatly assist the reproductive efforts of the queen.plato.stanford.edu/entries/altruism-biological/__
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Post by daisy on Sept 21, 2006 14:16:05 GMT -5
social colonies with sterile workers maybe that is why they secretly sterilized so many narcissistic men and women with selfish genes that took after their narcissistic selfish gene queen mothers and that were from social colonies
looks like the govs might be trying to stop or greatly reduce - by secretly sterilizing some of the agressive ones with selfish genes __
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