Yes. When organisms have enough, pro-sociality can get expansive. I think about this all the time. It's an interesting lens to invert: if someone is being a giant douche, what else is probably true, or has been true?
I try to keep that in mind, too (it's not always easy). We don't know what other people are going through and it's good to grant them some benefit of the doubt, until they prove they don't deserve it.
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