Reaction

During class today, I thought it was somewhat unfair to compare ourselves to other animals in order to determine why humans smoke/drink/eat badly when they know the repercussions. It seems like we are stretching our analysis a little to far to make up a bullshit idea. Humans have minds while animals just have brains. Well, now, after doing a little bit of research I discovered that human brains weigh less and the cerebral cortex or nerve center is just slightly more complex than other animals’ brains. In class, we talked about how humans think they are immortal. I wanted to discover where the idea of an immortal soul stems from, thinking it had religious origins but it turns out it is from the philosophy of Plato. Of course, the spirit in man has theological origins.  I think that humans harm themselves because they are looking for spiritual answers about themselves or the human race in general. Over the past centuries, we have experienced great advancement and progress while suffering from unfortunate evils and troubles like the desire for war, cigarettes, alcohol ect.  We are looking for something spiritual in nature that can’t be found.