Are Rats are More Empathetic than Republicans?
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Uploaded by TheBigPictureRT on Dec 12, 2011
A budget deficit isn't the REAL problem with Congress - it's an empathy deficit. Luckily - researchers at the University of Chicago may have just discovered a solution to that problem. According to a new study published this month in Science magazine - the latest animal discovered to be able to empathize with others is...rats! That's right - rats are empathetic. The experiment went like this: two rats that normally share a cage were placed in a new cage in which one of the rats were restrained in a tube that could only be opened from the outside of the cage. Once the rat that was roaming free in the cage - was let out of the cage and completely free - it time-and-time-again went back to let his cage buddy free as well. Think about that for a second - the rat was free - but wasn't satisfied until his cage-mate was free too. Researchers said that the free rat acted far more agitated when its fellow rat was restrained nearby - a sign of what researchers call "emotional contagion" - which is often only observed in humans and more developed animals. Even when the free rat was given a choice between freeing his cage mate or eating chocolate - the rat freed his buddy just as often. As one researcher said, "There was no other reason to take this action, except to terminate the distress of the trapped rats...In the rat model world, seeing the same behavior repeated over and over basically means that this action is rewarding to the rat." As in - rats got pleasure out of helping other rats - they found it rewarding. There's more...
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@mzm153 Well then perhaps we're both seeing past each other. Not a big deal. I'll continue on in my ways and you continue on in your ways. I'm not trying to change your mind at all. I'm just expressing my opinion.
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@ArmoredFelix I was going to say the same thing to you.
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@mzm153 Either figure out what's being said or continue on in your ignorance.
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@ArmoredFelix Whites suffering from genocide??? Please. LOL
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@mzm153 In Japan when you immigrate, and they allow VERY few immigrants. When you become an immigrant you suddenly get human rights. That is how it should be everywhere. When every white country and only white countries are told to open their borders, it's not diversity, it's genocide. Black countries for blacks, Asian countries for Asians, White countries for everyone.
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@ArmoredFelix Sorry about the assumption about your religious belief, but I can't believe that after having whole nations and people wiped out in the Americas, enslaved in Africa, exploited in Asia by certain European Countries and you still accuse immigrants of genocide????? Please.
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@mzm153 I'm not a Christian. I am a proud agnostic of the first order. I don't care about religious beliefs or what some old man in some messed up country says. I do care about what's fair and right. I care about my race and my ethnicity being destroyed by outside forces. I care about other races and ethnicities being destroyed by my governments. I want everyone to leave everyone the hell alone. So take your assumptions elsewhere.
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@ArmoredFelix Do you realize Taliban and Al-Qaeda think just the same you do? The only difference is that they call themselves Muslims while you call yourself a Christian.
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It is sickening the people are becoming more and more lacking in empathy it is a very bad sign and will not bring about a future that anyone wants no matter their politics etc.This has to change, if it does not we are all doomed.
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Wow scientists needed to do a study to understand that rats just like other animals feel empathy duh!
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Politicians operate at the reptilian brain level so yes, rats have more empathy than them.
BannedUfos 2 months ago 16
"rats arent governed by the IMF.,which i guess technically makes them the superior species on this planet....i guess when the aliens come looking for our leader.,we'll take them to the sewers and homeless cities;imagine when they study the cockroaches..."
UNIZEN 2 months ago 7