Humans and How They Work

I Thomas Hobbes will explain to you how human nature works, how we tick and what motivates us. I believe that every living thing obeys laws of individual survival. All humans are motivated by self-interest and the quest for power. Altruism can not exist in the world, because it is not possible for it to exist. Of the voluntary acts of every man, the object is some good to himself. The state of nature is dominated by scarcity and fear where everyone is enemy to everyone else and life is short, solitary, poor, and nasty. There is only one natural right for all people and that is the right to protect yourself using any means available to you. The only way for people to live without fear of being killed by one another is to bring in a third party. This is called the social contract, where the first two parties give complete control to the third part and give up there right to violence, and the third party becomes the source of all authority. This could be called a monarch or parliament, but no matter what you call it it is the third party that has all control over the other parties to make sure they keep there agreement. The government should be ever present and controlling with there authority as was agreed upon by the other parties. If you believe that my view is pessimistic then by all means go ahead and believe that, but we all know that sometimes people have trouble accepting the truth. Take the example of what is happening around the building of the Islamic center near the site where the twin towers fell. People are concerned only about themselves, blaming the Islamic community for the destruction of the towers and then wanting to desecrate the place where the towers use to stand. They have a fear that if they allow the Islamic people to come and practice in the area that they will begin to slowly take over and attack the beliefs of what we have here. Next i will use the example of the infamous Scar from the lion king. This selfish lion shows just how we hunger for power and the only right we have is to protect ourselves. When he blames the hyenas for the problems when he has his power taken away and then turns around and tries to tell the hyenas that he was always an ally to them. This shows that he was trying to save himself and not even care about who else got hurt. Lastly I would like to use the book the Hunger Games as my last example. This book show the natural right we hold as human to protect ourselves. By putting these kids through the games and telling them there are no rules, this gives us the true example of what i am trying to show. We are savegase in nature and that we will stay alive and not trust anyone with our lives because we know that we can not trust others because of human nature.