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finland is the happiest country because all the sad people commit sudoku

@druid
Ok, so a serious answer.

Relating mouse behavior to humans while not automatically wrong, can be a problem when trying to abstract it.

The free mouse has nothing to loose by freeing the other mice, therefore it isn't a selfless act. There is no self-sacrifice. It can also argued that it's a selfish act as it increases the chance of getting a mate. Then there's the question of how much are mice actually even self aware.

That's usually not the case with humans. Humans are much more complicated than mice.
The mouse also does not understand, know or care how that locked mouse got there. It's just doing what's beneficial to the survival of the species in that moment.

Like you said, the reason I'm eating pizza is that my ancestors learned to cooperate, but cooperation requires action from everyone involved, not blind empathy. What do you do with people not cooperating? It also requires a means of communication and a framework on which to communicate.
Mice do not have any of that.

If we want to apply mouse experiments to humans, let's do the mouse utopia. I know you are in favor of providing everyone with means of survival (food, water, shelter).

BTW memetics are a great tool

@druid being able to communicate effectively is pretty much the biggest cheat in nature
i did not have sexual relations with dat boi

@druid
Meaning that it's just an evolutionary stage :smug:

>taking a shitpost seriously

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