Re: Why Compassion?
"This makes me think that compassion came after the development of consciousness in man. If this is true, then compassion isn't an evolutionary instinct, so to speak"
Human brain's reached their current average size around 200,000 years ago so its not unreasonable to assume that they were fully conscious, and it is entirely possible that our ancestors were conscious much before that. perhaps as much as 2 million years ago. Why wouldn't compassion be an evolutionary trait if it could well be between 200,000 and 2 million years old?
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