To: decimon
It begins six million years ago when the common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees experienced the first awakenings of an empathy for others and motivation to ‘help’ them, perhaps with a gesture of comfort or moving a branch to allow them to pass...and then letting it spring back to knock the other down, accompanied by gales of laughter from the rest of the troop.
14 posted on
10/05/2010 12:06:18 PM PDT by
JimRed
(Excising a cancer before it kills us waters the Tree of Liberty too! TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
To: JimRed
It begins six million years ago when the common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees experienced the first awakenings of an empathy for others and motivation to ‘help’ them, perhaps with a gesture of comfort So wait, if empathy begins with chimpanzees or there abouts, why do other species like cats, dogs, ducks, etc. also exhibit empathy?
15 posted on
10/05/2010 12:21:35 PM PDT by
a fool in paradise
(Ask yourself,where does Saudi Arabia fit on a scale of "passive" to "moderate" to "extremist" Islam?)
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