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Kuro_Hyou666 said:
Obviously, to a certain extent. Selfishness is a word we created to suit a certain trait we recognised in ourselves. I don't think selfishness and survival are necessarily the same things, when you consider that mga hayop are incapable of conscious thought, therefore the concept is foreign to them. That's part of what makes it a human concept. mga hayop simply take what they need for survival, because, for the most part, it is necessary for that. However, I recognise selfishness as being human in the point that we are greedy and want what we don't really need, just because we want it. That's real selfishness, as opposed to mga hayop don't even have the capacity to recognise what 'selfishness' or 'survival' actually means. Also, there is the fact mga hayop simply kill, or take food, for the very purpose of living, or not knowing what it actually means to be either of those things. Whereas humans know what selfishness is and just be that way, regardless of how it impacts them, or those around them. I feel that is the stark difference here. Humans named the trait/concept, recognised it as being negative, or adverse, then people just decided that they didn't care about that anyway, so they never stopped themselves from being that way. Whereas mga hayop have no understanding of the concept only do what they do, because it is necessary for survival. N.b. I realise that there are some mga hayop that don't do certains becuase it's necessary for survival, but just because they react to that animalistic instinct. Even so, humans are worse, because they know and don't care.
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