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Old 08-12-2014, 03:10 PM   #50 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by RoxyRollah View Post
How come no one has pointed out that altruistic acts exisit
in the form of parents and their offspring?

Do I need to point out we as humans have the desire to sacrfice ourselves, our stuff, or what have you,for the greater good of our children...cough* Just my opinion though. .
That's about as clear a case of evolutionary programming causing us to act in a way that perpetuates the species at our own expense as I can think of.
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