Humans may have evolved to experience far greater pain, malaise and suffering than the rest of the animal kingdom, due to their intense sociality giving them a reasonable chance of receiving help. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.10
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An alternative to the view that animals experience more pain than us because they don't have as many other types of danger-avoidance tools (e.g. reason).
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Would this also apply to individuals? And to culture-dependent social environments in childhood.
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This system is also easily exploitable. Dishonest signals, such as false rape allegations, hate-crime hoaxes, Munchausen syndrome, insurance fraud, etc., are all ways to game this system.
Because of this, I predict we will eventually evolve to be less empathic.
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Plays well into the #AvailabilityHeuristic that humans seem to suffer more because we have no words from the experiences of non-humans.
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