/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>11350615
No, it's true. All over nature, you will find organisms that tend toward working together (i.e. swarm behavior) than separately. This is because it is evolutionarily advantageous to share resources among 'kin', that is, there is a better chance that the species will survive. At the lowest level, you see this as multicellular organisms, at a higher level, you can imagine this to be countries, which are made up of cities made up of people. That is, even though individuals die, the collective survives. And this couldn't be done without a bit of selflessness on the part of the individual.

In your example, you matched humans with insects first (showing less than savory behavior), but then went on to humans and humans (teaching is sharing knowledge). This distinction of 'us' vs. 'them' is actually very important, and this is why you will see people being altruistic within the 'us' group, where they will be severely critical with the 'them' group. It causes a lot of problems, as you can imagine.

How do you think these 'social codes' came to be in the first place? It had to have been a case of the many (working together) to overpower the few. I won't place labels of good or bad here, but rather just that the former had a greater tendency toward selflessness. This also explains how there are those who would sacrifice themselves for something 'greater' than themselves. Caring about others (e.g. altruistic behavior) is simply the origin of that. Because, on the whole, it's more beneficial toward survival.

>>10869874

Argh, where can I get the chinese patch for this? I dont think the english translation will be out anything soon and I'm itching to play it

>>10706149

^^

>>10013417