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Originally posted by davidgrouchy
When did ego become a bad thing?
David Grouchy
Originally posted by 547000
reply to post by Wally Hope
Screw the community. I don't see the whole as greater than the sum of its parts. If individuals want to contribute to the whole, that's good, if they don't, that's okay too. Having the freedom to pursue your own interests is a good thing. Collectivist societies can suck it.
Infants as young as 18 months show altruistic behaviour, suggesting humans have a natural tendency to be helpful, German researchers have discovered.
In experiments reported in the journal Science, toddlers helped strangers complete tasks such as stacking books.
Young chimps did the same, providing the first direct evidence of altruism in non-human primates.
Altruism may have evolved six million years ago in the common ancestor of chimps and humans, the study suggests.