Philosophy Blog: What is your view of humanity?

Humanity is a very controversial subject and contains two completely opposite sides with numerous arguments. In my opinion, humans are not qualified to deal with their mistakes properly, they take absolutely everything for granted and they will do anything in their power to get to the destination that they want to be at.

In my opinion, humans are not able to deal with mistakes and tend to reinvent themselves as well as their past every time they are faced with these moral errors. We are brought to believe that we can always strive for what we call perfection and change ourselves to fit those criteria, but in reality, humans are terribly flawed. Our flaws often catch up to us, which is when we make these mistakes. Then, we try to extrapolate the good we think we did in a situation where we truly messed up, which is when we try to encircle a deplorable situation with a bright red bow and reinvent our past. Humans tend to convince themselves that they can change for the better, without truly putting effort into a ‘better’ person. We lie to ourselves to make ourselves feel better about our human nature. In my opinion, I do not believe that someone can truly change. Human nature is meant to be flawed. No human being has ever been categorized as perfect because there is simply no such thing, so what explains our want to get to that state of perfection even if we know we cannot attain it? Could it be guilt or the simple fact that we try to comfort ourselves into believing we are not as flawed as we are?

I believe that humans have an innate flaw to take everything they have for granted. We tend to spend so much time trying to obtain what we want, but when we have it, we take it for granted and forget about how much we wanted it in the past. I believe that humans are after a constant chase all throughout their lives. We spend our entire being trying to get to perfection with our jobs, our relationships, and our everyday lives. Once we have attained what we seem to think is good enough for ourselves, we search for another problem and forget about the journey we took to get to where we wanted to be. We begin taking that situation for granted and we move on to another chase. My view on this subject is that humans will never truly be content with the things that they have and they will always try striving for better.

Humans will always be liars and addicts. I believe that humans are highly egocentric and will go through any lengths to obtain their needs and wants. We lie to get to where we desire to be because we are addicted to our own happiness and we are in constant search for perfection, even though we know we cannot attain it. Humans are prideful and lustful and will satisfy their personal needs in any way possible. Geveryl Robinson makes the perfect point in her article called 'Are We Greedy By Nature?' She speaks of economic greed, enumerating the amounts of money that people make in huge buisnesses and the amount of money that governments have, but then again, none will give their money to the ones in need because of their greed. Also, have you ever wondered why humans lie? I consider lying as an excuse to try to make ourselves be looked at in a different and more flattering light. We want what we want, which is the making of human nature, and we often lie ourselves through situations to get to our destination point.

In my eyes, humanity is very hypocritical, ungrateful and egocentric. We reinvent ourselves as well as our past to make ourselves feel better about the person that we are, we take absolutely everything we have for granted until we lose it, and we will go through any lengths to get what we want. Human nature is simply set out to be flawed and imperfect.