Student: Ramona Dillon
Date: October 15th
Paper: The Elements of Human Nature
If death is the opposite of life as we know it, and life is the physical presence on earth with a beating heart and pumping lungs, then surely we are blank canvases at birth.
Fresh-faced and empty-minded, ready to be lured into a pre-approved way of thinking. Ready to have our minds warped and our bodies defiled.
Has humanity been present since the dawn of mankind? Is it a choice or a condition? It cannot be proven to be present at birth, nor can it be proven to linger at the cusp of death. We are bodies consisting of bones and blood, with free-minds and endless opportunities…until pre-approved notions are subconsciously enforced upon us by both government and society.
Are we all born killers?
Are we all born saints?
Why are some men good and others evil?
Does evil even exist? If so, how is it measured? Who decided for an entire species what is acceptable and what is not? Are we not mammals? Are we not the apex predator?
Are we prisoners of our minds?
Are we captives of society?
Are we free at all to think for ourselves?
If a person didn’t choose to be brought into this world then why are they forced to remain?
Who decided the rules for everyone else?
Society or God?
Man or myth?
What if a person wants to bend the rules?
What if a person wants to crush them?