Talk:Worker policing

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December 7, 2012	Good article nominee	Listed

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on October 17, 2012.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that in certain species of bees, ants, and wasps, workers sometimes cannibalize the colony's eggs if they aren't laid by the queen?

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September 12, 2021: Page edited by anonymous.

Dubious tag added to last statement on initial paragraph regarding wasps displaying altruism. I consider this to be an eloquent work of fiction. To anthropomorphize a wasp as such: more evidence is required to prove that even humans are capable of displaying altruistic intentions. For altruism does not include the action, so much as the motivation behind the action.

altruism - devotion to the welfare of others, regard for others, as a principle of action; opposed to egoism or selfishness (https://www.oed.com/oed2/00006619;jsessionid=4348C80513565AC29D383DAA937E6B6D)

principle - a moral rule or a strong belief that influences your actions (https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/us/definition/english/principle)

Key word: influence. I shall not play with semantics any further. If anyone has the source to the cause of all altrusitic tendancies: speak now, or forever hold my edit.

Altruism has a specific meaning in biology which is distinct from the philosophical concept you are describing. Biological altruism is defined solely in terms of reproduction and genetics. Expecting to establish "altruistic tendencies" as defined in philosophy as it pertains to the study of insects would be like expecting the Group of Seven to have an associative and invertible binary operation. Fishsicles (talk) 18:41, 13 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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