Sunday, May 6, 2012

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.