Intellectual elite - educated but lacking in intelligence.
Because they have character?
These are examples of personal decisions by individuals to voluntarily sacrifice their values. This is different from the government using force to violate the natural rights of individuals by confiscatory taxation to redistribute to others.
There are people that act without thinking to helping others, there are people that think without acting to help others.
But who truly knows why? I once jumped out and lifted a full grown man with my left arm then jumped 6 feet with him in tow to save him from an oncoming vehicle. I never thought about it, years later I wouldn’t go out past the break in the surf to help a friend struggling in the rip — I had just made it in myself by not panicking and using the dead man float. When I looked at him, I saw panic in his eyes and I just froze. He was rescued by a surfer with surf board. I felt ashamed, but I knew if I went out there one or both of us would have drowned.
It could have been that they were born for that very moment. You know the question really is am I a man or a mouse? And every day there is an opportunity to answer that question. These ladies answered it heroically. I hope I would do the same and I am guessing I would.