1.0 link 102530 <![CDATA[Human Suffering: Why We Care (Or Don't)]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/19/human-suffering-why-we-ca_n_102530.html The dire situations in cyclone-battered Myanmar and quake-tossed southwestern China and the impulse of many to offer relief have a lot to do with human nature. Our hunter-gatherer ancestors likely did it, and non-human primates do it.

We are hard-wired to help others, to drop everything in crisis situations, scientists say.

"People do really respond in these crisis situations where it's really a short-term matter of life or death," said Daniel Kruger at the University of Michigan's School of Public Health. The...

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