> One can easily think of a situation where a beaver might actually do better to not build a dam - but a beaver will try to build one anyway. The real question

> One can easily think of a situation where a beaver might actually do better to not build a dam - but a beaver will try to build one anyway. The real question is if the beaver realizes this. I can think of situations where humans have done things that I believe it would have been better for them not to do based on my own information which may be different from theirs.