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Why Human Beings Get So Much Intrinsic Joy From Helping Others
Why is it that human beings seem to get so much intrinsic joy from helping others? I think this is of great and deep significance, andthat you have just to put a historical lens on this. After the enlightenment, the idea was of human beings as individuals. Individualism was the great goal of political life. And i think we conceived of people as deciding to perhaps interact with other people,. The neanderthas had probably bigger brains than us. They may have been individually smarter, but humans lived in tighter, more socially connectedr what does that mean? It means if somebody learns something useful, they can share it with one of their kin, and therefore they can also share it with