The haves must give, with benevolent hearts, to the have-nots.

Extending a helping hand to those in need.

     And why is volunteering logical? The instinct of self-preservation would maintain that what is one's is one's and sharing is unnecessary as in nature, unless in hunting packs or colonies, an individual must learn to hunt for himself. People call this a factor of the "survival of the fittest." With this, it is highly defensible to not share one's resources with another as in the nature of competition. Once sharing occurs, even in the broadest sense the beneficiary depends on the benefactor. If the benefactor gains nothing helpful from the other, then the relationship would already be considered parasitic in nature. A parasite wouldn't be good for an individual at all.

     So why share with and help others? It is because of the laws of evolution. Remember that individual organisms do not evolve. Populations do. Unless individuals can completely separate themselves from the rest of humanity, we humans should then help one another so that we may finally evolve together, as an entire population. Is it possible for an individual to completely separate himself from the rest of his original population? Never in this eternity. He would need a mate to have sex with, a family to provide for him, and more necessities that he couldn't possibly provide on his own. Since we are then given that complete separation from the rest of the population is reasonably illogical and impossible, and only populations evolve and not individuals, the question left is the necessity to evolve. Do we need to evolve? Evolution occurs in a progressive manner wherein through evolution, the more adept would have better chances than its more primitive counterparts. In this context, to have even better chances is to evolve, and since we want better chances for ourselves we are left with the choice to be ready to evolve. Of course, evolution in this reference wouldn't mean morphological and physiological, but more of social and psychological. 

"The haves must give, with benevolent hearts, to the have-nots. People call this 'volunteering'. Extending a helping hand to those in need..." - Yukinoshita Yukino

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