You may be wondering why I am I showing this to you. It’s very simple and has to do with my readings of Ch. 10, you scratch my back, I’ll ride on yours. For those who don’t know what Farmville is, “FarmVille is a real-time farm simulation game developed by Zynga, available as an application on the social networking website Facebook. The game allows members of Facebook to manage a virtual farm by planting, growing and harvesting virtual crops, trees, and livestock” (Wikipedia). In Farmville you have neighbors, and they can send you free gifts once a day which include tress, decorations, and livestock.
So if selfish animals like these unite for selfish reasons why can we? “A pack of hyenas can catch preys so much larger than a lone hyena can bring down that it pays each selfish individual to hunt in pack, even though this involves sharing food. It is probably for similar reasons that some spiders cooperate in building a huge communal web. Emperor penguins conserve heat by huddling together” (166), if I send my neighbor a gift it’s for him to send one back to me. These animals are smart because they act as a group and get all the benefits, if my 25 neighbors, would send me a gift per day I would send them one as well and if their neighbors would do that as well we would all win, but no. I use to send a gift every day to all my neighbors but stopped, and only started sending gifts to those who send me one. I only scratch your back if you scratch mine.
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