Why People Choose To Help Others?

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Now comes the time to reveal the truth of why people choose to help others. People decide to help others due to our instinctual nature as social creatures who want our own species to survive and thrive we want to help others because we know that they are similar to ourselves.
For instance, in the movie, How to Train your Dragon, Hiccup, the main character, works together with his dragon, Toothless, to stop an evil dragon named Red Death which terrorizes other dragons and forces them to attack humans. When his father, Stoick, learns that he has been working with a with a dragon, he disowns him ;however, despite this, Hiccup still wants to protect Stoick later on during the battle against Red Death because he knows that Stoick is still a good person at heart. This well showcases how people are willing to aid others who have mistreated them previously because they are aware that others are also human, and others are likely going to help people just as much as they are.
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provided to European nations after World War 2. The U.S. did this not only because it would provide the U.S. with a better image globally, but because the U.S. knew that helping allies in the war outside of combat was the virtuous and honorable action to take since losing support from other nations would be a detriment towards the survival of U.S. and its people if it entered another major conflict. This demonstrates the aspect survival that comes with assisting other by showing that because people want to survive as a species they help others in order to gain trust and form a mutually beneficial relationship with

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