Relationships between animals (including people) in nature can usually be classed as symbiotic, parasitic, or predatory. Altruism is an evolutionarily new and interesting one!
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I think there's an extra layer of abstraction. The symbiotic instincts + abstraction that lets you categorize strangers as conspecifics
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Pretty much all of human civilization is explicable by the value and the potential dangers of a brain that can a) formulate abstract concepts and b) treat them as seriously as object-level concepts
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