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Good point. Most animals don't seem too choosy with the sex. I thought gene diversity was required for health - maybe only with some animals?  

Some species of animal are resistant to the damage of Inbreeding.

Many however are not, and have other ways around it. Sheer population growth would probably have natural selection root out the unideal ones, and many inbred/crossbred creatures are incapable of procreation.

I was wondering about the "hit in the balls effect".

A vast majority of males respond in a very similar way to observing this type of an injury.

Any other comparables?

I always found it funny, at least when it wasn't my balls in question.

by Buttered Toast

Empathy has been discussed here, obviously, but I wonder if there is a physical empathy.  What I mean is being able to feel pain or other physical phenomena occurring for someone else as though your own.  Can such a thing operate without any emotional empathy present?  Is it neurologically different, or a setting or part of the presence of any kind of empathy available?  Is it a matter of conditioning that empathic potential to differentiating empathy development?  If so, does it then mean those of limited empathy also have a limited "supply" so physical sensation and encounters happen before the higher social awareness and thus stunt emotional dynamics?

This reminds me of these characters from GiJoe when I was a child. How the twins would experience each others physical experiences 100%. To my current understanding, that very concept is inactive as we are.

There is a popular belief about men feeling ill with an intuition, before knowing for sure they've impregnated a woman.

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With that kind of empathy, any idiot will learn how wrong it is to kick a guy in the nuts, and touching oneself in the presence of others will unveil a new kind of harassment, or greeting. Sex would also be more euphoric.

by Spatial Mind

There is a popular belief about men feeling ill with an intuition, before knowing for sure they've impregnated a woman.

 lol what

I question how that could be proven beyond witness accounts.