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Re: Are humans naturally acquisitive and always selfish? [Re: DividedQuantum] * 2
    #28607733 - 01/02/24 09:15 PM (25 days, 16 hours ago)

In psychology, it's fairly well studied that different people show different levels of prosocial behavior. Some people show little or none, others show a lot, most people are in the middle.

There are plenty reasons why prosocial behavior is beneficial for individuals. People who you help might help you in return, it can create social bonds which are incredibly important for finding lovers and jobs, it might make people think more highly of you which could benefit you socially, it can lead to promotions in the workplace because people want to work with others who they perceive as being nice or enjoyable to work with, and on a large scale it can help genes to survive by increasing the likelihood that a larger social group survives even if a single individual does not.

However, selfishness is also incredibly beneficial (for obvious reasons), and sometimes prosocial behavior can be useless.

Because both behaviors can be useful, we have people in our society who are selfish, and others who are very prosocial. Some people are maximizing one of the two traits, but most people fall in the middle.


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