The only exception seems to be that we will sacrifice ourselves sometimes for our families and others whom we don't see as faceless. It's a fundamental flaw in how we are built. We may not believe in Original Sin, but I refer to this element of human nature as the Original Curse. It is the quality that is most likely to lead to our extinction. It's ugly, and it's had all kinds of really rotten impacts, but patriarchy wasn't just a random left-turn that early matriarchies made by mistake.
Societies adapt to changing conditions, and they choose changes that work, or they die out.
For all the other effects of the advent of patriarchy, it was a successful survival strategy. There is no other way to interpret the fact that the world, which used to have lots of thriving matrifocal or egalitarian societies, now has only a handful. Of course, now the habits of patriarchy threaten us with extinction, by dint of the very fact that it is too damned successful and not enough of us are dying. Our population is going through the sky. Unless we learn some other way, we will die off, like a virus that is so successful that it annihilates its host species.