You may look at different aspects of your life, think that you have a happy life and that you are a good person; that may be true because we are currently civilized. On a much larger scale, humans are not naturally good, the darkness of humans’ hearts are masked by civilization. In The Lord of The Flies, by William Golding, he describes that no matter how much we try to disguise our evil - which we are born with - it is destined to resurface when we have either lost control of ourselves or put under difficult circumstances. But many people may still argue that humans are naturally good… then why do we have to teach babies to be good? If the people who have been least influenced by the world - newborn babies - are supposed to be pure of sin,
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But that is not necessarily true; if you have spent any time with a baby, you would probably catch yourself constantly telling them to stop doing something or to act in a civilized manner. But then if babies - the humans who are new to the world and least influenced by “the world’s evils” - are good… why are they being taught to be good? The fact that we humans are told how to be good proves that we simply can not be good when we are alone, as shown in The Lord of the Flies. In The Lord of The Flies, by William Golding, Golding shows us what happens when civilization vanishes and human nature takes over. When the boys getting rescued, Golding states “Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart…” (Golding 182) this proves that even though Ralph was saved from the island and the traumatic moments, he will still not be the same. Ralph was weeping because he finally learned about the evil that is in our …show more content…
An authour at Brown University, Deborah Baum, wrote an article about the “Warrior Gene”, also known as “Monoamine Oxidase A (MAOA).” Baum states that people with the warrior gene tend to “exhibit higher levels of behavioral aggression…” (Baum) in comparison to someone without Monoamine Oxidase A. Baum also mentions that you do not need to have the “Warrior Gene” to be necessarily violent and if you have the gene, it does not mean that you will be very violent; having the gene only states that you will be prone to more violent behaviours when provoked. This shows that though many of us are already prone to violent behaviours, some of us are genetically prone to violent actions. Furthermore, humans have always been violent; during the Paleolithic age, humans killed animals to have food and so did Jack - in The Lord of The Flies. Although many may argue that humans in the Paleolithic age and Jack only killed animals to survive and that they did not have a choice, that can be easily argued. Humans, in the 21st century, do not NEED to eat animals or consume any animal by-products to survive or to have a healthy lifestyle. About 490.000,000 people (about seven percent of the world) identify themselves as a vegan, being vegan means you can not consume or purchase any products that have been produced by an animal. This proves that humans are still evil because they kill innocent beings even if they do
But that is not necessarily true; if you have spent any time with a baby, you would probably catch yourself constantly telling them to stop doing something or to act in a civilized manner. But then if babies - the humans who are new to the world and least influenced by “the world’s evils” - are good… why are they being taught to be good? The fact that we humans are told how to be good proves that we simply can not be good when we are alone, as shown in The Lord of the Flies. In The Lord of The Flies, by William Golding, Golding shows us what happens when civilization vanishes and human nature takes over. When the boys getting rescued, Golding states “Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart…” (Golding 182) this proves that even though Ralph was saved from the island and the traumatic moments, he will still not be the same. Ralph was weeping because he finally learned about the evil that is in our …show more content…
An authour at Brown University, Deborah Baum, wrote an article about the “Warrior Gene”, also known as “Monoamine Oxidase A (MAOA).” Baum states that people with the warrior gene tend to “exhibit higher levels of behavioral aggression…” (Baum) in comparison to someone without Monoamine Oxidase A. Baum also mentions that you do not need to have the “Warrior Gene” to be necessarily violent and if you have the gene, it does not mean that you will be very violent; having the gene only states that you will be prone to more violent behaviours when provoked. This shows that though many of us are already prone to violent behaviours, some of us are genetically prone to violent actions. Furthermore, humans have always been violent; during the Paleolithic age, humans killed animals to have food and so did Jack - in The Lord of The Flies. Although many may argue that humans in the Paleolithic age and Jack only killed animals to survive and that they did not have a choice, that can be easily argued. Humans, in the 21st century, do not NEED to eat animals or consume any animal by-products to survive or to have a healthy lifestyle. About 490.000,000 people (about seven percent of the world) identify themselves as a vegan, being vegan means you can not consume or purchase any products that have been produced by an animal. This proves that humans are still evil because they kill innocent beings even if they do