alt Hacker NewsWhy are we the only creatures who can choose that?
Does a crow have no agency to be the first to food and challenge the leader or the scout who keeps watch for the others while they feast?
Can a dolphin not choose to align more closely with play than rape?
It seems to me that animals have much more agency than we choose to believe / allow.
They always choose their instinct to survival; only we have a conscience and free will to choose whether to behave selflessly or selfishly.
Only we can think abstractly about the needs of the group, the happiness of others.