RE: WELCOME TO THE NEW WORLD ORDER...
January 2, 2015 at 12:47 pm
(This post was last modified: January 2, 2015 at 12:57 pm by Faith No More.)
(January 2, 2015 at 12:38 pm)abaris Wrote: It's up for debate if we're born with it. As I always keep repeating, new experiments with animals have shown them to possess empathy. So it may actually be a result of evolution, since having empathy actually has it's advantages, at least for a social species.
Well, we might be born with the capacity for some empathy, but it's definitely something that needs to be nurtured. Empathy is most definitely a result of evolution, and what you will notice is that in the animals that do develop empathy, you will also see a strong parent/offspring bond.
ETA: Sorry, I responded before I saw the links, but they pretty much reinforce what I was saying.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
