What Makes Us Moral Analysis

In the classic novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding a group of English boys crash land on an island without any adult supervision leaving them to attempt to fend for themselves and create structure on their island. Without a form of authority on the island, what at first starts out as an seemly innocent attempt at survival by 12 year olds quickly becomes chaos and destruction caused by a backwards, corrupt dictator. Golding once said that he believed that society's flaws are caused by the defects of human nature and human greed and he uses Lord of the Flies to show this, its also supported by Jeffrey Kluger the author of an article named What Makes us Moral.
William Golding repeatedly shows his strong belief in the profoundly immoral …show more content…
Kluger opens his article by stating that if all of humanity was in one single being “that person would have long ago been declared mad” (Kluger 1) . The author means that due to human's nature to appear moral and how impressive it is that we have been able to establish world governments and progress the world in so many ways, that it is sick and twisted that we still are so backwards and evil in so many ways and even use these very advancements to kill other humans. The article also touches on an experiment conducted by Schulman, a psychologist from Yonkers, New York. Schulman records that all one person responded saying he wouldn't mug an old woman because “that could be my (his) grandmother”, and says it would be okay to mug a Chinese delivery man. The subject responds this because to him the delivery man is just some random man without a family as far as he is concerned and even in an innocent state of childhood shows his selfish views of greed and how his family, such as his grandma, is more important than someone else’s family member or husband. This is how Kluger uses his article to mirror the ideas of Golding to justify that humans are evil and selfish by their nature and it negative effects on