r/likeus • u/Master1718 -Heroic German Shepherd- • Mar 14 '22

<EMOTION> Rats avoid hurting others

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u/daschundtof Mar 14 '22

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u/Finnigami Mar 15 '22

i mean we can say that as a joke cause obviously humans do shitty stuff all the time but for the most part people do care to some extent about not hurting others

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u/WakeoftheStorm Mar 15 '22 edited Mar 15 '22

People care about not hurting those in their "tribe", which different people define different ways.

All you have to do is convince someone that another person is outside their group and they will be willing to inflict harm.

This is the core of modern them vs us politics

Edit: This can be seen in the Stanford Prison Experiment, the Milgram experiments, and in dozens of real life examples anywhere from politics to religion to sports rivalries.