Have the rich and powerful lost their altruistic instincts?

[Jolly_Penguin]

Dogs, dolphins, penguins and bonobos come immediately to mind. Bees too in a way.

Humans are such self-centered narcissists. Fuck humanity. Power to the penguins. We will take you down.

 

[ruby sparks]

Humans are the most altruistic and good of all the animal species

I call bullshit on that.

Yeah. It's PIGS!

Some of the police are well-intentioned, I'll grant you that, but I suggest black widow spiders. Well, the males at least. Seriously, how many human males would be willing to be eaten alive just to get a shag?

 

[Jolly_Penguin]

Yeah. It's PIGS!

Some of the police are well-intentioned, I'll grant you that, but I suggest black widow spiders. Well, the males at least. Seriously, how many human males would be willing to be eaten alive just to get a shag?

Preying Mantises too. Orb weaver spiders too. They actually throw themselves into the female's mouth. Insect sex is absolutely insane if you read up on it. Everything from this to bed bugs, who mate by "Traumatic Insemination". The male skewers his member into the female, anywhere on her body, and pumps the sperm into her, which then finds its way to the eggs if I recall correctly.

 

[skepticalbip]

Dogs, dolphins, penguins and bonobos come immediately to mind. Bees too in a way.

Humans are such self-centered narcissists. Fuck humanity. Power to the penguins. We will take you down.

Penguins may strut around in their tuxedos looking all sophisticated but they are hooligans.

https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/ad-lie-penguins-are-sexually-depraved-little-perverts/

...snip...

Far before the sexual liberation of the 1960s, penguins were ahead of the curve by engaging in promiscuous sex between unpaired male and female penguins. There were also records of homosexual sex between male penguins.

So far, no problems by modern standards. But wait. On his Antarctic Expedition, Levick also observed instances of Adélie penguins engaging in rape, gang rape, sexual and physical abuse of chicks, as well as necrophilia with penguins, some of which had died the previous year.

...snip...

 

[Elixir]

Dogs, dolphins, penguins and bonobos come immediately to mind. Bees too in a way.

Humans are such self-centered narcissists. Fuck humanity. Power to the penguins. We will take you down.

Penguins may strut around in their tuxedos looking all sophisticated but they are hooligans.

https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/ad-lie-penguins-are-sexually-depraved-little-perverts/

...snip...

Far before the sexual liberation of the 1960s, penguins were ahead of the curve by engaging in promiscuous sex between unpaired male and female penguins. There were also records of homosexual sex between male penguins.

So far, no problems by modern standards. But wait. On his Antarctic Expedition, Levick also observed instances of Adélie penguins engaging in rape, gang rape, sexual and physical abuse of chicks, as well as necrophilia with penguins, some of which had died the previous year.

...snip...

I knew those little fuckers with their veneer of religious attire were all perverts!

 

[Loren Pechtel]

It has been a long while since we have had a French Revolution but that does not mean one can not happen again if things get bad enough. And after a revolution you will always see altruistic behavior come back because the rich will see the need for it to come back.

You realize the French Revolution seriously hurt the French economy for a generation?

 

[Patooka]

"Have the rich and powerful lost their altruistic instincts?"

I'll jump in with the most obvious response:

When the fuck was that ever a thing? Noblesse oblige was always a romantic myth.