2.1 Rats and Empathy
Adam Tyler
From Huffington Post, I learned that rats can actually be similar to people when dealing with the emotion known as empathy. In a study, a rat was offered either chocolate all to himself or free another rat trapped in a cage. Surprisingly, the rat went to help the other rat escape, which is impressive since he apparently wasn't even trained to open cages. It was empathy that made this rat free the other, and empathy is an emotion humans feel. It means to place ourselves in their situation. So, the rat put himself in the other rat's situation in the cage and realized he would have wanted to be free too, so rather than selfishly eat the chocolate, he freed his buddy. This is how rats and people are similar in personality, so now humans can feel empathy for even disgusting creatures like rats, since we know they feel empathy for each other when in a bad situation.
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