Immorality Explored In The Lowest Animal, By Robert M. Sapolsky

Man’s Immorality Explored Scott Mescudi, an actor said, “Some humans are really bad at being human.” Mark Twain, the father of American literature writes about his observations on human behavior in his essay, “The Lowest Animal.” Which consists of observations made after conducting experiments on animal’s behavior and comparing them to negative qualities humans exhibit in their behavior. Author and neuroendocrinologist (someone who studies hormones and behavior), Robert M. Sapolsky explains his fascination with the science behind violence and other bad behaviors in his book called “Behave.” As a result Mark Twain’s essay, “The Lowest Animal” and the book excerpt “Behave” by Robert M. Sapolsky both reflect a theme of how man is immoral through scientific experiments and explanations in the biology behind man’s more negative behaviors. Twain uses his experiments to illustrate lack of good morals in mankind's actions. In the experiments when animals failed to exhibit immoral human behaviors such as greed or cruelty, he is saying humans are beneath animals of any kind because no animal under any situation exhibits such actions. For example …show more content…
Sapolsky’s book excerpt, “Behave” both use science and logic to conclude a theme of how man is immoral. In conclusion Mark Twain and Robert M. Sapolsky both see humans as immoral. They prove humans are immoral by conducting experiments and using background knowledge of biology on human behaviors. Behaviors such as greed, cruelty, and violence shown in observations of experiments are what make man immoral. Now these behaviors have always been present in human, and humans will continue to behave in such ways because it is a part of our biology to react to certain situations in a negative way, though that does not excuse people to be rude and nasty all the time; it means that one should start deciding what behaviors of theirs are good and bad and if they benefit