As individuals, humans are vain, selfish beasts that are just looking out for themselves. That’s not an condemnation on you personally. It’s a condemnation on our entire species. We have these lizard brains at the base of our noggins that drive us to act on our primal instincts, which center around self-preservation and survival. We will do whatever we need to get ahead. However, we’re not lizards, so we have other parts of our brain, thankfully. We have a higher brain, that allows us to use reason.
It’s this part of our brain that allows us to work together, to put aside our differences and be selfless. Do what’s best for the whole, instead of the individual. However, evolution is slow, so there are still those individuals among us who haven’t shed their reptilian ways. While we’ve joined forces and created wonderful, thriving societies, there are those of us who have no idea how to act civilized in them…