A video of a guy saving a rabbit from fires in California is circulating on Twitter now. There are lots of similar, even more extreme examples on YouTube of people saving animals and even risking their own lives to do it. There are even a few examples of animals trying to help other animals in distress in similar circumstances.
Obviously we have to have a built in desire and instinct to attempt to preserve the whole in addition to preservation of ourselves. Without cooperation and preservation of the whole, the individual dies. Quite a bit of cultural teaching emphasizes self preservation above all else and implies helping any other is a suckers game. Enlightenment political theory is based on observations made by psychopaths about the nature of the world.
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