beneficial and important to the human race, through a series of questionable morals and vast amounts of wrongdoings have created a situation of over-innovation, or innovating past the point of benefit. Though from a cynical perspective, it is vital that we question what we do. Are we doing what is truly best for ourselves, our planet, and our neighbors? Or are we striving so arduously that we have essentially skewed right from wrong, and found ourselves in a situation that humans have lost the sense of morals
Human nature is generally defined as the general psychological characteristics and behavioral traits that all humans share (Dictionary). This would imply that all humans are born with certain feelings, thoughts or actions that we all have in common. However, this does not take into account the most important part of determining persons characteristics and behaviors, their childhood. Babies are born being neutral and they develop and grow into the person that they will become as an adult. Humans
Cannibalism Culture Cannibalism or the consumption of “human flesh” by humans is an act in which many people feel uneasy about and is ethically immoral to participate in (“Cannibalism”, 2008: 427). However, it is a ritual that is practiced in some parts of the world. There are still cultures that feel that the “eating of humans by humans” (Lawless, 2006: 435), is perfectly conventional and acceptable. This may create a culture shock for many individuals that don’t engage in such rituals The reasons
Humans have a tendency to indulge in luxuries, standing in mile-long lines outside retail stores in search for bigger and better devices despite already possessing everything necessary to live. This facet that historically defines our species is traced back in author Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, which details the evolution of Homo Sapiens from being an ordinary link within the food chain to a dominating influence on the Earth’s ecosystem. Harari explores the patterns
Human nature in the Destructors The setting of the story happened in Blitzkrieg, London after World War II ended. The characters that the story consists of are mainly teenage boys who had created a gang known as Wormsley Common Gang. Their group continuously meets everyday beside the house of Mr. Thomas or Old Misery. When they had to decided to make decisions for the gang it was made through voting. T or (Trevor), the main character in the story, suggested that the gang should demolish Mr. Thomas'
Sigmund Freud developed this idea, which is known as the pleasure principle, claiming to explain that the human consciousness and subconsciousness revolve around this idea. If someone is isolated, then they will try to alleviate that suffering in one way or another. Human emotion is reduced to extremely simple terms, unlike what they truly are, which is extremely complex. The idea of reducing humans to such a simple understanding seems unfair, but it carries a sense of truth to it. Every person on Earth
“Rise of the Human Predator” by Wong K. In addition, this article is simply foundered on the formation and development of human predator. It includes three separate parts which are “Brave New World”, “Butchered Bones” and “Deep Impact”. Each part has its own content about how our ancestors gradually becomes the most successful predator in the world. But it also points out an interesting nowadays reality, “In our era of supermarkets and fast food, it is easy to forget that we humans are natural-born
convey and use words and sentences to grant. quintessential human traits, Humanness is gotten from a lifted decent code and this is reflected in our claims to fame, particularly composing, wherein we may briefly reflect upon quintessential human traits, for instance, kindheartedness. Incidentally, verbalization of articulations of the human experience is simply expert by the individual being a bit of a more significant whole: the human gathering, the essence of which is point by point in the Bantu
movement is so difficult to define is because many of these thinkers have differing views on what the human condition is, which is at the center of the study of existentialism. Something that is found to be common between many existentialist, though, is their consistent and utter rejection to any and all systems, theories and organizational constructs that attempt to answer the question of the human condition, and give value to our existence in a comprehensive approach- whether they are based in religion
Human Genetics Introduction This paper reviews two interesting articles related to human genetics. Dr. Nestor Morales, Assistant Professor of Psychology at New York City College of Technology at City University of New York, presents the idea that since human cloning is inevitable, an understanding of the psychological aspects of this development need to be addressed. The second article to review is found in the European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry; it relates to the genetic link from a parent