“Small Acts of Good, US as Third World Country, and How Culture Changes”:
For humans, it is another reminder we don’t help animals for them, but for us – to try and give our own pointless lives a little more meaning.
While we do help animals primarily to make us feel good, we do that because it is a reminder that there is a point to life, which isn’t grounded in the rational, but in the spiritual. Those daily acts of small “irrationality” are attempts to maintain our soul in an overly rational dehumanizing world.
These little acts of good, towards frogs, but especially towards other humans, is a part of us that speaks towards high purpose. Yes, I will use saving a tiny frog to imply the sacred dimension of existence.