Sep 28, 2011

[BC] What makes human?

Since I am not actually going into a UC, I chose to do the sophomore essay, in less words.
On Wikipedia, The definitive characteristic of humanity are based on Compassion, empathy, altruism, aggression, and fear. However based on the above characteristics, in my meaning of humanity, it’s about the good parts of what a human does. Well it’s true that humanity or a human being have facts about what humans do that are negative. But when you get down to talk about some one's humanity, you mostly talk about that they help each other and form a nice environment.
Compassion is a big thing about humanity. We can often sees it whenever there are some disasters going on in the world such as earthquakes, floods, and explosions. For an example, not long ago where there was a huge earthquake over at Japan and it as well caused tsunami and it really damaged Japan, a lot. Meanwhile the new passes out around the Earth, everyone starts to see what is going on and try to figure out what can we do, as part of the society and try to help out people that is suffering. You can donate money. It doesn’t need to be whole bunch of it, but what you can afford is already a great effort that you can help whenever there’s a horrible disaster. These money goes to supplies, staff, and transport. Furthermore some people takes out their time and go over to volunteer, being a part of the team that helps out.
Feeling is also another important fact of humanity. You share feeling with people and sometimes you can sense on what a person is feeling. This relates with lots of stuff, compassion can already be an example. There are different perspectives on everyone and that is what made human. It exist on the world that we are living. Let’s say when you’re sad, your face would mostly changes and people can somehow tell from sensing it. That is also what makes you understand another person better because of how empathy works. You know yourself well enough so that you can also somewhere tell when others are experiencing the same thing that you might be facing on. As well as talking about empathy, it’s like you will think back and forth to try seeing stuff in different perspectives. Also reach the goal of knowing how it feels like as another person and understanding their point of views.
However humanity is about everything, there’s good part and bad parts. Some says fear exist in our humanity with pros and cons. I believe in fear can makes us improve, but as well as making us not to step forward. Fear of failures or fear of dying are likely to make you stay strong. If you are fear of failures, obviously you would work as hard as you can to prevent it from happening. And fear of dying of course can get you away from dangers because it’s part of the human nature, you want to do anything that can help you escape. Fear of public speaking might be a con of fear. You might not trying to talk in front because you will be scared to be judged on words being used correctly or not.
As a conclusion, I believe in the way that these characteristics are what made human, from a thousands years ago to now. The process of evolution, how human improves our lives. We figure out new stuff as we grow, having more knowledge about people. We have fears of having a bad live. Furthermore, we  help and know about each others’ live.

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