ABSTRACT
Service as a Fundamental Human Value Human beings provide service in nearly every culture in every corner of the earth. One would be hard pressed to find a group of people who do not commit at some time and in some way to assisting one another. Why is this so? Why does a helping ethic persist in both the best and worst of human living situations? It is likely that our motivations to serve were born in the initial, parent-child experiences of our species. We can speculate that as the first human parents struggled to ensure the survival of their offspring they laid down the template for service. As parents and children came to feel affection and loyalty to one another, loving and caring became an essential feature of their shared situation.
