Aggression vs. Altruism: Crash Course Psychology #40
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- čas přidán 25. 07. 2024
- In our final episode of Crash Course Psychology, Hank discusses the ideas of Aggression and Altruism. These two things are difficult to understand and explain so sit tight and get ready to run the gauntlet of human emotions.
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Chapters:
Introduction: Robber's Cave Experiment 00:00
Conflict vs. Cooperation 2:26
Aggression 3:05
Genetic, Neurological, & Biochemical Reasons for Aggression 3:26
Frustration-Aggression Hypothesis 4:24
Altruism 5:17
Bystander Effect 5:48
Why do we help others? 6:57
Social Exchange Theory & the Norm of Reciprocity 7:19
Social Responsibility Norm 7:47
Conflict & Self-Interest 8:09
Review & Credits 9:37
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Just finished watching all 40 episodes and wanted to give a quick shout out to the graphics team Thought Cafe, the animations and graphics are awesome and I love all the references!
That's the end of the series? I wasn't psychologically prepared for this.
Scishow Psych
I love how on 4:46 he casually threw in "Okay? Okay." from the fault in our stars reminding me of that painful, painful book made by his brother
made a 96 on my psych final because of this series... thank you all!!!!
+Musicyay12 psych is fun interesting but not for the faint hearted. We do it for the love of it, if you don't love the field don't do it
+Musicyay12 it depends on the course you do, the university, and the country you do it in, my university gives books to first years that americans study as postgrads.. I am not bragging.. it is TERRIBLE. They use terms that they expect you to know because they were written for postgrads, terms so obscure you can't even find them on google
we then get exams that test you on remembering the most minute detail rather than understanding of overall ideas
so far I've been scraping a pass. Except with social psychology, aced that :D.. Thanks for your well-wishes! Musicyay12
Am I the only one learning this for fun and not because of any tests?
nope
certainly not
lol same
+Alex No you're not special.
I love such stuff
done, all 40 in one lazy sunday - can I print my degree now?:)
+Toxis This series is merely the tip of the complicated iceberg of psychology, much like the conscious.
MasterPoppers still not a science though, not yet.
+Toxis i want a 6 and a half hour degree too!
+Toxis Do you know what science is? Pop culture tends to slap the word 'psychology' on any cute little idea involving the mind, but psychology is a true and effective science. Psychologists use the scientific method and control experiments just like any science does. Complex variables can skew results, but that is true of any complex science. The mind can't be viewed directly, but neither can many particles -- physics is never questioned in its validity.
Tyler O'Connor
yes, except that is not what happens, at least according to the people who recently tried to replicate 100 published psychology experiments and found that more than half of them failed. And not according to Paul Bloom, the Yale psychologist, who said (on Sam Harris podcast) that psychology right now is basically at the same place astronomy was before Copernicus. So yes, I wish psychology was science, and it is going to be someday, but right now, I always said, psychology is our last alchemy. And there was nothing wrong with alchemy, but it was not a science until it became Chemistry.
The bystander effect has always really concerned me. I mean, I would have said something, but nobody else seemed that worried, so...
That's what I was thinking. I probably wouldn't have said something not because its all part of my malicious plan to be the only survivor of a fire and let the other 2 people fend for themselves, but because they didn't seem that worried, so maybe its a regular thing, or part of the test that i somehow missed.
I think we're worried that we'll look foolish.
Dear Hank, please make a sociology Crash Course. Thanks
YEAHHH!!!
YES!!!!
YES YES oh god yes!
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I truly hope you guys do a psycology crash course part 2 in the near future! I love learning about psycology and your videos are excellent resources to understand the basic aspects of psycology.
Same!
I've always fought against the bystander effect. When I was younger I didn't know why I helped people. People would ask me and I'd shrug saying it just seemed like the 'right' thing to do, even after growing up in a very poor home life where morals like that didn't exist. Now that I'm older I do think it's more the reciprocity norm, but not with the idea that it'll be paid forward to me, but that it'd be nice if everyone started helping others to make the world better and if I stand up as an example it'll be more likely to happen.
I believe you are what we call "Abnegation" (even though the act word is a noun, but shush... )
That's similar to how a view karma. Doing good creates an environment that makes it possible for more good to be done.
I would've beaten you up and took your lunch money
***** I never watched it and only seen one trailer?
TallahassZ Remington You mean you would have tried. Just because I'm nice doesn't mean I'm a pushover, but if you said you were hungry I probably would have shared with you.
And one cram of all 40 weeks squeezed into the two days before the AP Psychology exam finally comes to a close. Thanks to Hank, I am feeling pretty good about a five.
Thank you for this awesome program you put on, whether or not I am a bit late
Gravity Wave Did you get that 5?
Bummer that the Psychology course is coming to an end. I would love to see a series on educational psychology-- many viewers of Crash Course are teachers or college students on their way to becoming teachers. Please consider it! Love you guys!
LOVED THE BREAKING BAD REFERENCE taking my exam next month and I can’t even express how good crash course has been for me, hope anyone looking for a real place to continue studying outside of school ends up here. Thank you Hank.
This can't be the end! How can it be a psychology crash course series without even mentioning ADHD? It's one of the most complex, common, and misconceived psychological phenomena out there.
heavyweaponsgaming I know right!
Oh come on, special snowflakes much?
I have ADHD and, with the right amount of doctor mandated meth substitute I do fine. 👍🏻and have for 30 years.
heavyweaponsgam I get agreed. To this day I am still bothered by it, to the point were I lost a bit of respect for them.
While the topic certainly deserves discussion, I don't believe ADHD warrants the same attention that most of the other disorders presented previously did. In my experience, the condition is only functional. What I mean is that it impedes my ability to pragmatically function, but doesn't directly cause any form of emotional struggle. It makes life hard, not painful. Admittedly, my experience with ADHD is likely limited in comparison to yours, seeing as I'm only 14, but I believe it best to state my thoughts on the matter.
heavyweaponsgaming you forgot misdiagnosed as well
Hank pls continue this series
40 episodes its not enough
This series was legitimately better than a college course that I payed hundreds of dollars for...
Dear PBS you literally are the best online study tool Ive come thus far online. You make learning for me exciting and fun, sounds cheesy but its that simple. I'm an ART major so the animation you use is very stimulating in your lectures. A+ I love this guy.
Good Luck tomorrow AP Psych team!! We got this!
Glad I'm not the only one attempting to learn everything mere hours before the AP test, lmao. Good luck tomorrow, everyone!
THANK YOU Hank and all Crash Course Team, that's the least thing someone can offer you back, Thank you so much (after finishing History, Philosophy, Economics, Sociology and Psychology)..
I have loved these. I am taking psychology at A level here in the UK with the hopes of getting involved in counselling psychology as I have experience with mental illness (I have OCD) and I want to help people who struggled like I have with mental health. These are so fascinating and I love them, I also get a nice feeling when you mention something that I recently learned in a lesson about which is funny :D
Keep learning, there's no point stopping
Oh I intend to ;D I love psychology and find it so interesting as well as just having a yearning desire to help others
level5productions
Just try not to alanyse yourself too much, especially not your present self. That can lead to a LOT of distress.
I'm ADHD.
Shawn Kroner
I have bipolar disorder, and I loved the episode about bipolar and depressive disorders. I didn't learn a thing with that video due to good psychoeducation but I shared it with friends who didn't understand the disease very well. I loved the rest of this crash course and I'm kinda sad it's over now.
This got very ‘Lord of the Flies’ for a second there. Lol.
Yep
Wrote summaries for each video in this series, for extra credit in my community college class. Was enjoyable, though took a whole semester, haha. Thank you.
Just finished watching the psychology series! Love this channel even more than SciShow! Great job guys!
Off to see which topic to binge watch next! :D
Thank you for all the psychology help! I watched all 40 videos and I found them to be good refreshers of old information as well as great sources to new info. With the AP exam tomorrow, this was exactly what I needed, and now I feel prepared to get a 5!
"You and your boo". Best thing i've heard him say thus far.
I love how you link concepts together! I've been trying to learn that but it's so tough not having exposure to it, so thank you!
I have come to love these videos in a way I can't even explain. Every night I'd get to the PC, check the youtube page and see if there was a new video on the psychology course. These videos have somehow become a big part of me, they have been very useful for my college studies, but not just htat, they have helped me to understand people better, and of course to understand myself too.
I'd like to deeply thank you for doing this, Can't believe it's been almost a year of Crash Course psychology!
Excellent series, though I am slightly disappointed at the lack of an episode on autistic spectrum disorders and other neurodevelopmental disabilities.
Thank you so much for this series. I absolutely love the way you present the material. Although I love my Psych 101 prof, I think you do an even better job of really getting my mind to wrap around these concepts. Keep up the good work on this channel. :)
Hank you have to continue this series!! I’ve been using it since it began for my university exams! Today’s exam is Social Psychology and Just watching a couple of relevant videos before the exam really jogs the memory of the revision I’ve already done!
Thank you very much for all 40 episodes!
I really appreciate the animations, graphics, and, of course, Hank's explanations.
They have definitely sparked my interest in the field of psychology.
Good luck to all learners!!
I have enjoyed this series so much. I would love it if there would be more psychology courses in the future.
Aw final episode :(
Thank you very much for this series, I really enjoyed it. :)
Thank you for another fantastic crash course, this pairs so well with so many of the Sci Show episodes you do.
I have just binged watched all 40 of these the weekend before my AP psychology test. Thanks crash course for the nearly 7 hours of psychology review!
Thanks for basically giving me all the sources I needed to prove that Lord of the Flies is an inaccurate model of society for my research paper. You guys are the best.
Oh hey you said Lord of the Flies how did you know
Except that it was totally how things were going until an outside force stepped in to change it. Without co-operative goals being created and dropped onto a group from on high, there is no reason to stop the aggression. Competing for limited resources (time on the basketball court, baseball diamond, seats in the cafeteria) will always lead to conflict, until you completely destroy barriers and assimilate both groups into one group.
This is very easily done in children...but not so easily in adults. In fact, this is generally only done after the complete destruction of a culture (see the Native Americans for an example).
ravemastaj Co-operative goals like... building shelters? Getting food? Getting off the island?
Alanna R.
None of those are co-operative goals. When you go to the bathroom, do you go with 10 other people? If you built one, would it be a communal latrine? No, you probably think of a single toilet in a small room with running water.
Building a shelter is either for you, or the friends that helped you build it. At that point, they are in your "in-group," and everyone outside of it is in your "out-group." That's why Lord of the Flies became increasingly violent as the story went on - one side tried to use socialism and group goals to help the little children who couldn't do anything (think of the conch shell), while the older kids broke off and did their own thing, like killing pigs for food and fun (think of the little "in-joke" they created after the hunt).
The "co-operative goals" you have described only work in the context of a single group. As soon as there are two competing groups, the dynamics fall apart into chaos. Like I stated in my first comment, you have to destroy barriers and make both groups assimilate before they can be considered ONE group, which is generally a messy process.
ravemastaj No? Either you don't understand LotF or you don't understand the experiment. This experiment even had an in-group and out-group to start with, whereas LotF didn't (they eventually formed, but weren't there from the start). The shelters can be compared to, say, the water tank (idk if Hank talked about it in the video, I read up on the experiment after I saw this). It's a thing that everyone needs, and that is more easily accomplished in large numbers. Your argument could be just as well be used for the water tank, and the experiment disproves its validity.
And yeah, no. They didn't destroy barriers first. To use the water tank example again, it was like, "Hey, this water tank is broken. Fix it." They did nothing to make both groups assimilate. Besides, there was only one group by the time they were, say, building shelters.
These videos were my last push for studying for my AP test tomorrow. Hopefully I do well. thanks Hank & team!
I definitely learned a lot from this series, thank you for making all the videos!
I have successfully binged these all over the past week. Best of luck to everyone tomorrow on the AP exam!!
Really enjoyed Crash Course Psychology! Sorry to see it end.
This was an amazing course!!!! I had so much fun, I learned a lot, and I wish there were more psychology videos like this. I have definitely gotten inspired to take psychology classes at school. Thank you to everyone involved in the CrashCourse videos!!!! :D
A wonderful optimistic ending for a great crash course. Thank you!
thank you for the series, to Hank and Thought Café, to everyone who has helped making this series possible. you are very helpful and very appreciated, love you Crash Course :)
in other word, to unite all of humanity.. we need to be invaded by alien...
+Calvin Zero yeah but how long would that last? If we defeated the aliens we'd presumably just go back to fighting against each other.
+Calvin Zero Who knows, it could increase all humans altruism. and we may start teaching out kids to do the same and life gets better i believe an alien invasion would be catastrophic, yet a lesson to pass down.
Pokemon Trainer I say that we just start over in a place that doesn't have children on it yet, like another planet or a small isolated group of people, and experiment on them. Inform them that they have to tell a tale of alien catastrophe and see where it goes from there. The people would of course have to volunteer. There's no sense dragging people out of their homes to lie to their future children in isolation.
+Calvin Zero Ender's game
+Calvin Zero Independence Day the movie.
I love way he talks... He doesnt bore me at all
Thank you! I just finished the whole course. Fascinating!
HANK, you are amazing! I was more into your chemistry videos but your psychology videos are also very interesting. Thank you.
You guys should make a second Psychology playlist where you address things like ADHD, autism, Asperger's, and synesthesia that you left out of the original playlist. I want to watch a CrashCourse video on Asperger's, darn it!
I'm a bloody crash course on aspergers. It's hell for me
I think synesthesia was actually addressed in one episode.
could you guys do a psychology video on the "science of being spoiled"?
Lawrence Howe They're following the AP Psychology curriculum right now, I think. They might continue it like they did with U.S. History, though, if there's enough popular demand.
Thank you so much for this mindbogglingly interesting, entertaining, and beautifully animated series! I enjoyed every minute of it, and will continue to do so when re-watching.
This was another great Crash Course series! Good job, Hank!
just finished watching 40 episodes. I hope there would be more
When you binge study and watch CrashCourse before the AP exams.. ToT
When you binge study and watch CrashCourse for no reason at all
I watched everything and loved it! Great help!!!
Hats off to the entire team from content writing to graphic designing. Thanks for this wonderful experience of learning. Your graphics are too good, and explain things interestingly, it is what makes me glue to your channel. Please keep making such videos.
I help others because it's fun to get recognized for my efforts. A simple expected "Thank you." can fuel almost anything you may need from me, even hours of work spanning my entire pool of knowledge and wisdom.
It's just too bad that you can't make money off of being nice.
Then someone would be paying you to be nice. And, that's not very nice of you.
Well i don't think i would be doing that to get recognized but to find out if they recognize the meaning of being "nice" .
Who else made it through all of them!? Good luck tomorrow!
Oh my it's done. Thanks for this Crash Course. God bless you always.
I just wanted to say thank you to Hank and Crash Course for the psychhology-series! I have seen the 40 episodes and gained lots of insights about both myself and others, as well as opened myself to the world of psychology. Most likely I´ll watch many of these episodes again to understand things better, and maybe read more in chosen subjects to deepen my knowledge and understanding. To publish such great content for free like you do on the internet is a truely awesome thing, keep it up Hank and John and all the others working for this project! Greetings from Sweden!
iIwish they would have kept going tho.:(
So Crash Course is an experiment on the Green twins...
Hank and John aren't twins.
They're not twins....
Bedinsis
Not Hank and John. Hank and Dave.
@@IceMetalPunk Hank and Dave aren't twins either
@@elisha2358 Are you sure about that? I could swear they were.
Crash Course Psychology is over? :( I am really going to miss it. I have definitely enjoyed this series. DFTBA
I love your videos just finished them and have been such a great help for the NEW MCAT!!!!!
Love you guys! Thanks for spreading knowledge and impartiality
will there be any more psychology videos? I love these!
I don't think the experiment with the 1 or 3 people in a room thing. I think a big fact in the one with the oblivious actors would be that the actors are oblivious. The person probably would think "maybe I'm just seeing things" or "maybe these two know something I don't. They don't react so maybe I shouldn't either" which could account for the low percentage.
Or, peer pressure. Humans of all ages succumb to it. And, you don't even have to know the people around you very well.
he didn't say they were unreasonable for doing that, but the fact is that if there is a smoke in a room that doesn't suppose to have smoke, there is a high percentage that there is danger and you aren't loosing anything if you mention it to people around you
Actually, you nailed it. :)
In those experiments, what they found is people looked to others for cues, and were overestimating how good at reading themselves the others were. So, if "Bob" were in the room with "Jill" and "Todd", Bob would look over to Jill and Todd to see if they noticed anything. If neither of them seemed really aware of it, he would assume he might be wrong and go about his business. In the case with other real people. *sometimes* they caught on, but a lot of times they did not. However, with actors who are feigning complete ignorance, a person was much more likely to assume that they really were just imagining it, because the other two people seemed completely oblivious to it.
Twosocks42 And this is why we need autistics and aspies and other congenitally socially awkward people, to freak out about the fires everyone else is pretending not to see, because it doesn't occur to them to also pretend not to see it.
lexidizzle but testing on people who dont have that reaction wouldnt tell us the actions of people who DO pretend not to see these these things, I only made the orginal comment because i wasnt sure if that was a factor in the experiment or not.
Wow! Taught a similar lesson yesterday to my 5th graders. This will be a nice follow up to my big question to them- why do people risk themselves to help others? Thanks! Excellent timing, as always!
Really good videos, I watched all of them and I have to say that I enjoy them a lot. Keep up the good work!
John brags about LFC greatness in CC World History II and Hank showing popcorns thrown at LFC crest in CC Psychology... I see what you're doing here!
Anyway, great series, thank you Hank and other staffs!
I was wondering about that too. A dig at his older brother?
tuskinekinase John's more ego driven, often needs recognition and boasts about himself. Hank's more of the simple humanistic kind. idk I like them both; just an observation.
Mashi920
Have you seen Hankgames and Games with Hank? I disagree with your assessment.
I think it's more because John's a huge Liverpool fan.
Whats a Liverpool fan. sorry I'm not good with sports. lol
Mashi920
He's a fan of the Liverpool Football (soccer) club.
Congrats to ap psych 2k19 kids for binging all 40 vids in one night :))
Thank you Hank. Great content. Great fun. Keep doing what you do!
I watched all these videos out of curiosity and learned a lot. Thanks.
lol liverpool cant catch a break right now!
Making these videos and sharing them with the whole world for free is a clear example of alturism. However the comments section under these videos is a clear example of agression and simple human stupidity, at least sometimes.
I must say Kudos to you! I do enjoy my references and those lord of the flies I just can't get enough of. Keep at 'em!
Thank you CrashCourse for what has been an extremely well-researched, educational and enjoyable series!
I would love to watch an episode about ADHD, I recently got diagnosed so it would be very interesting.
you wouldn't make it through the video
you wouldn't make it through the video
you wouldn't make it through the video
And that comment is why we need a video about it. ADD and ADHD are disorders that are often unrightfully punchlines.
+Kian Najmechi Thomas Brown wrote a great book about it, check it
In my psychology class we were given a gruesome example of the Bystander effect. A woman was raped and stabbed in the middle of a street late at night. The people in the buildings nearby had heard her but no one called the cops. The attacker came back and raped her again and then escaped. The woman ended up dying. When the police finally got there and asked why no one had called the cops, the summarized response was "We thought someone else would do it".
Probably. It's been a good number of years since I heard about the case so I can't quite remember the woman's name.
That example is GREAT for my classroom management/school climate project, thanks!
Just loved the course.
Thank you very much ❤
Come on Earthlings, let's band together in an effort to destroy the moon! Damn skyball, always lording it over us, taking away our precious sun everyday!
God Can we have another Moon, with volcanoes and geysers and stuff instead of this guy? Pleaaase! ;)
LuiKang043 I'll just build my own Moon, with Blackjack and hookers.
yeah lets build a death star to get rid of things we hate!
I'm not sure if you watch Doctor Who but it reminds me of a recent episode where they had to decide to blow up the moon or not.
This comment thread! Don't let it die, dear Universal Admin!
Crash course psychology season 2 please!
+Pata Fea That would be helpful when I take psychology next school year. I wish he made videos on sociology.
There are entire sociology courses available online. Crash course is only a few hours long and just gives you a brief overview. But yes, crash course sociology would be cool.
If you want something as exciting as crash course (rather than dry video tapes of college lectures) try the School of Life, they have a lot of sociology videos.
Yea I agree, and thanks for the recommendation
There's also an online social psychology course by Rob Willer, spread between psychological social psychology and sociological social psychology, it's really fantastic. Of course there are hundreds of courses online, but I recommend this one because it's funny and therefore doesn't require the levels of willpower that others do.
Thank you so much for the recommendation and I appreciate the time and effort you took for this. I watched one of his video and it was relevant to one of the topics in my sociology textbook, and I enjoyed it.
I love Crashcourse , thank you for helping me get through my classes and learn interesting topics.
Thank you to all of the CrashCourse team for these 40 excellent videos! Your classes are a lot more fun and interesting than other MOOCS. Please do sociology or philosophy next!
"When you are asked to love everybody indiscriminately, that is to love people without any standard, to love them regardless of whether they have any value or virtue, you are asked to love nobody."
- Ayn Rand
I have done many things for others, so much I ruined my own life protecting others. Being honest and trying to be good is hard because there is a price in the society we live in. Very few will be there to catch you when you fall for doing good but they are always around to reap a reward from you or because of you. At first I did this being a traditional Native American, then, I do it because wether there is a God or not, I refuse to be just like the social norm in America of rugged individualism, self centeredness, materialism, and thinking GOD gave you riches while the same God turns a blind eye to murder and People starving.Sometimes I wish I could be one of those mean folks I described above but it is just not in me to be that way. Sure, I can get quite mad at selfish folks who try and do that to me and others but as far as ruining their life or beating them no.
Good for you! A life well lived is its own reward if, at the end of the day, you can look back on all you have done and felt deeply that you have done well.
And that may be your only reward.
I loved Crash Course, it was my favorite so far! I've learned so much! Thanks Hank! :)
this was well done. I personally believe that everything is done for personal reasons even if that reason is, "it makes me feel better about myself".
So what your saying is that all we need for world peace, is an Alien Invasion?
Well, that is the conclusion of Ozymandias in Watchmen.
I wish he would have put 30 sec of Ayn Rand in there about how altruism is actually the cause of conflict for some intellectual diversity
i love how your video has a plenary where you summarise all that we have learnt
Such a good video series. Thank you so much for creating this.
who else has an AP psych final tomorrow?
Am I the only one thinking that I wouldn't have wanted to go to camp and wouldn't have made any friends and wouldn't have wanted to fight the others ??
this can't be over i need more episodes omg
@CrashCourse, we really enjoyed your take on aggression and altruism. Wish you would think about making more psych videos!
Are the kids in the Robert's cave experiment supposed to act that strange? They act like grown-up... American politicians.
all politicians, given my experience. Of course, only stayed in a few countries, but the politicians all seem to be full of the same substance.
SangoProductions21 Well, you won't find an argument or a raised fist with our Norwegian politicians. I guess they're just special then. ;P
***** possibly they are so good at being professional liars (politicians) that they don't seem like politicians?
***** Å? Sier du? Den som ikke kan inrømme at det er noe gale i sitt eget land? Spesielt når det er så veldig åpenbart! Litt av en patriot.
pretty much
I don't believe anything we do is ever selfless. I believe there's always self-interest involved. I don't care what you do. You can give your entire life's savings to charity, you can donate your kidney to someone you don't know or whatever. You're doing it for recognition or for that feeling of "I did something awesome today, I should feel proud" or even because you believe in heaven. (ESPECIALLY if you believe in heaven, you're never really altruistic. If you believe in eternal life after death of course you're gonna be nice, especially considering the alternative to heaven.)
While it is rare to find true selflessness, I have seen it. I've seen plenty of people do selfless acts for absolutely nothing. I've done it a few times myself.
ScarlettHorror But you got a good feeling from it right?
I agree with you, we can lie to ourselves, but truthfully, we're just commiting self-interest, but is that so bad? I mean we get a good feeling out of it and the individual we help is better off, so is it an issue that it is all for personal gain?
I don't know about you but I've found wallets with loads of money, lost iphones and smartphones plenty of times. Even though I could have taken them, I decided to return them to their rightful owner every time(one time my colleague was like "keep it!").
One time, my gf had $300 in her purse and she forgot it in a Target store, someone found it, counted the money and left it with customer service making note how much was there so the employees wouldn't take the money.
Unfortunately, the amount of aggressive and selfish acts I've witness outnumber the kind and selfless acts. But I hope when someone sees a kind act they will be inspired to do the same.
*edit* oh and I'm an atheist and I don't believe in life after death (heaven or hell).
So you only doing something good rests with avoiding eternal torment in hell from an angry god? In your point of view its the fear and blackmail that really makes a person "altruistic". I don't believe in hell or gods judgement. Sometimes I do good things because I can empathize with a person whose predicament is dire. It bothers the crap out of me to see people struggle horribly, so I intervene. While I may not personally know that individual, I understand what its like to suffer. I think that's called empathy.
Awesome and engaging series, looking forward to the next
Thank you for all the great knowledge and the amazing show Crash Course crew!