should i?

I was brought back to this blog after I was showing an incomeing freshman what this class was like. now i wonder, should i continue to blog about my thoughts about the world? perhaps i will, but on my own terms, i'm not gunna worry about punctuation and stuff. yeee!

Billions

     Approximately 3 billion animals are slaughtered each year for food alone. This is done at the hands of humans. Is this morally correct for humans to do? Is it okay for us to simply slaughter others by the billions as we wish to fulfill our greedy consumer needs? Perhaps this is the price for being overly sensitive to our own kind. We want even the weakest humans to survive, and so we need to feed so many more humans than if we let the week die off. So yes, we are moral for wanting all of our species to survive, but does that also make us immoral for killing billions of others for our own sake? Here we go again with all of our contradictions!
   

Categories

   Human emotions and actions cannot be categorized into specific general boxes. Our emotions come in a bundle. As much as we want to be the best human possible, and win at everything, often times we can't help but to assist those below us on our climb to reach the top. We have so many emotions that we do not know how to handle or explain them. We feel different things at the same time, and those feelings all contradict each other.
    The emotions of humans I think is what exempts us from many of Darwin's theories of survival. Humans are far too social and rely too much on each other to want to completely destroy those who are less than them, in our own species anyway. 

Charity

     Charity and welfare programs have become a common topic of discussion and action in America society. There is always a call to help the less unfortunate, and there is always a debate about who should be able to get welfare benefits. Are these acts contradicting the the theories Darwin created to explain the animals that live on earth? Darwin expressed the concepts of survival of the fittest and only the strong and most able survive. But we, as humans, now take extensive measures to try to save those who are weak and less able.
    I think that this shows how advanced and social humans really are. We care so much about our own species, and wanting more of us around we created ways to keep even the weak alive. So I guess some could say it is unnatural, but I think that it is a new form of natural. It is proof that we have advanced so much that we now are able to see the value of every member of our species and keep even the weakest of  it safe.

Survival is dependent

      Some may say that survival of the fittest means to be the strongest, biggest, and most dominate creature. I however, disagree to a certain degree. Survival can be extremely dependent on a creature's mind or small size to survive a situation. Think about it, animals like possums rely on their ability to appear dead to stop animals from eating them. Butterflies have patterns on their wings to look like owls to scare of enemies. Bugs can appear to be a leaf or a stick so that their attackers will bypass them rather than eat them. Some of these things cannot be controlled directly by the creature, but they certainly have learned to use these natural things to their advantage.
       The mind is also a very powerful tool for creatures to survive. Humans are the prime example of this. There are countless animals that are stronger, faster, and bigger than our race. Or brain and ability to hunt better, build shelter, provide ourselves with warmth, and discover how we can use everything to our advantage has allowed us to become the most dominate animal on the planet. 

perhaps

      Perhaps I over stated my case in my last blog, kind of what Sartre did. Sometimes humans cannot control their emotions. I know this from first hand experience. Chemical imbalances in the brain can cause depression, and cannot be controlled. Although I still do believe that humans choose to feel things, some things cannot help but to be felt. I think that humans can also choose not to feel things, again, the depressed feeling of numbness cannot always be helped but to be felt, I think that humans can also choose to block things out, to be numb. I think that needing to block things out and not feel is as much a part of human nature, as feeling is. I think that as much as humans love to feel, too much feeling can lead to an overwhelming feeling of pain, or too much doubt in happiness. I think that it is part of human nature to block out emotions and feel numb in order to control emotions, especially when they are strong, too strong. As much as humans love to feel emotions, humans need to not feel, or block out feelings to keep themselves sane.

A choosing nature

     It is not only necessary in like to make choices, but it is our nature to do so. I think that it is our nature to want to do what makes us happy, or to decide on our own terms what to do or how to do it. I think that humans are always looking for an adventure, an alternate rout, a different way to explore the world. And with that we are constantly choosing what to do and where to go. I think it is human nature to sometimes pick the decision that has more negative consequences in order to feel emotions that we don't often get to feel. We choose to let people close to us and break our hearts because the experience is exhilarating and new. The pain we feel in heartbreak is no doubt awful, but it gives us experiences, and proves that we lived and experienced something that some may not get to. We choose to heighten our emotions feel things more that we really need to. I think that enlarging our emotions more than we need to is part of human nature. We choose to feel things more deeply in order to simply feel something. Humans enjoy having emotions. We choose to have them, acknowledge them, feel them, and explore them. So why is it human nature to choose? Well I think it is because it is human nature to want to feel and have emotions.