Survival has an aspect of quality about it. A wild animal needs to do more than survive; it has to maintain a healthy condition in order to compete with others for resources and avoid predators.

Lying gets under your skin as untruths are embodied during the process of perceiving meaning

Violent entertainment is embodied via somatic empathy and is therefore harmful

Humans have selectively bred dogs to have facial expressions like ours.

Pain empathy reduced by paracetamol

One reason we don't enjoy witnessing, hearing, or even thinking about pain in others is that it activates pain regions in our own brain.