So, pretty much, when someones reputation is in threat of being damaged, they instantly try to protect it.  This is because of the way modern society is shaped.  The higher our reputation, the more respect we have.  The more respect we have, the more attention we get.  The more attention we get, the more we believe we have a chance at success.  It is all a process of thought that modern society and others have pushed onto us.

Empathy is a very strong factor in our lives.  We feel so much of it, that sometimes we pass it off as something else entirely.  But, there are people who have a lack of empathy, those who don't even look at people the same way as others.  These people, can preform the cruelest of acts, but sometimes the most logical.  Also, to much empathy could prove a problem.  If your over thinking about how something affected another person, you may miss a chance of something happening to you, and loose the opportunity.  But, it is good to worry about others, but you must trust that they can move on without your help.

people do what they believe is right, but when the morals of our own selves, cross those of others, who is the right person?  We initially decided that we'd have a third person sort it out, but is that really right?  Everybody has different morals and different ideas, so who draws the line?

This brings it back to morals, if a person has different personal issues than someone else, and finds it okay to push someone, and gets permission, than they will.  Everybody has different morals, and even if a psychologist believes they will say that, there is to many factors for them to accurately predict that

The runts of litters are generally pushed out of the litters and left to die.  However, if they survive this, they may be small but the fact that they've been pushed around so much allows them to be much smarter and more cunning than the others 

This is very true in a variety of different cultures, they put as much as they can into their first born so that they can  be proud, however they forget the later born's and then those children don't flourish as much

This sounds like my me and my sister a bit.  We fight a lot and sometimes hit.  But for some reason the power distribution is the same

I've actually learned a lot about ants from reading various things. It's actually wrong to think of a colony as millions of life forms rather than what is called a super organism. The organism can communicate with eachother almost telepathically and the ants in the amazon can actually pose a threat to humans