Tuesday Post "The Advantage"

Today we spent most of our discussion taking on what was the real human advantage. Basically, I think our advantage is our soul. Our soul doesn’t only give us freedom of choice and thinking, but it also gives us emotions which can be a huge factor in our decisions. The fact that we have a soul differentiates us from the simple man and makes each one of us a unique individual, as opposed to the animals that all have the same instincts and behave pretty much the same. Like everything Dostoyevsky says though, our advantage is also ironic because our soul and emotions can also harm us and get in the way of us making the right choices. For example, the topic discussed today of why people smoke. People enjoy smoking, and they have the ability to say “fuck it, so what it if it hurts me” and so they go ahead and smoke and bring pleasure to themselves. What I am trying to get at is that our advantage is our soul and the fact that we give it more importance than our physical body.