Absolutely preposterous Mel. Look at the life cycle of a living creature. It is born... involuntarily, it eats, drinks, and breathes... involuntarily, it breeds... involuntarily, and it dies... involuntarily. Now there are little fuzzy parts that can be assumed in the middle two statements but essentially my statement is correct. A person eats and drinks to maintain health and continued existence. The same can be said about breeding... it is the only source of immortality for a living creature and also a natural imperative to keep the species in existence. All the "selfless and altruistic" expressions you define are nothing more than a selfish means of keeping ones own bloodline in the mix which is wholly natural and nothing voluntary about it. If the child or relative remains alive like in your bus analogy then that person's essence remains alive.
You have absolutely no proof that humans here on Earth has evolved into anything selfless but it is finding grander and grander ways to keep itself perpetuating. Even claiming this selflessness and altruistic approach is again a self promoting act in itself. By claiming it is selfless you have garnered meaning to an existence that so far appears meaningless. I mean if you're whole family line ceased to exist what would be the effect, that is to say what would happen to the vacuum that would take your family's place? If you thought about it I think you would agree that another person would take it's place... while they wouldn't be your family necessarily they would still perform all the involuntary traits your family had in just their own way. No I completely in this instance totally disagree with you Mel.
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