Answer:
The author point out the ability of human beings to have feelings for each other through empathy which inturn create altruistic human behavior.
Explanation:
Empathy result in having compassion and understanding feelings of people who are afflicted and it's encourage others to render help. Empathy is a motivator of altruism. Altruism is a person's ego who has problems and anxieties and go out to render help to others who need it. Altruism born out of empathy is the true altruism because it is the desire to help people who are afflicted.
Mortified means you are highly embarressed. People are embarressed because they fail or they are ashamed
Depending on the context, his remark could be humorous...the other answers dont really make sense
I think it would be c because a piece of wood sometimes actually do that
