Humans Have a Tremendous Capacity for Compassion and Hatred, Peace and War, Harmony and Conflict
Introduction:
The plasticity of human is endlessly tremendous as a mystery. General speaking that human beings are filled with compassion but sometimes regard things with hatred; some people fire to each other whereas they declare that they are loyal believers for peace; and possibly humans are more capable for conflict than harmony. This essay is going to interpret that the human conflict, intervention and the issue about identifying good and evil, in order to unfold the statement that humans have a tremendous capacity for harmony and conflict, peace and war, compassion and hatred. And it will be concerned with the conflict of Arabs and Israeli, the teaching of Christian and Buddhism, the case study of 9/11 terrorist attacks, the Stanford Prison Experiment and the abuse in Abu Ghraib, the biological viewpoint as evidence to demonstrate the statement.
Human Conflict:
Simon Laurence suggests that ‘conflict is inevitable’ while human beings get together in groups in a social way by any forms. And conflict engendered by obtaining necessary resources for ‘maintenance and reproduction of life’ from competition. (Laurence R. Simon, pp136, 1998) It is omnipresent that a variety of conflict exists among humans. For example, in modern society, a teenager might be rejected to purchase a skateboard by his parents considering of that it would cause harm to him; a couple are arguing on the place they would like to travel for their 10th anniversary; group mates attempt to persuade each others to follow their individually different opinions… Obviously that conflict is unavoidable whenever and wherever humans exist on this planet.
Further more, according to Peter Koslowski’s argument, that human conflict are sometimes motivated by contrary or distinctive faith and declarations of various religions. In other words, appearing of conflict possibly symbolizes the “clash of religions”. (Koslowski P, pp1, 2001) Religion is the certain production with the development of
The plasticity of human is endlessly tremendous as a mystery. General speaking that human beings are filled with compassion but sometimes regard things with hatred; some people fire to each other whereas they declare that they are loyal believers for peace; and possibly humans are more capable for conflict than harmony. This essay is going to interpret that the human conflict, intervention and the issue about identifying good and evil, in order to unfold the statement that humans have a tremendous capacity for harmony and conflict, peace and war, compassion and hatred. And it will be concerned with the conflict of Arabs and Israeli, the teaching of Christian and Buddhism, the case study of 9/11 terrorist attacks, the Stanford Prison Experiment and the abuse in Abu Ghraib, the biological viewpoint as evidence to demonstrate the statement.
Human Conflict:
Simon Laurence suggests that ‘conflict is inevitable’ while human beings get together in groups in a social way by any forms. And conflict engendered by obtaining necessary resources for ‘maintenance and reproduction of life’ from competition. (Laurence R. Simon, pp136, 1998) It is omnipresent that a variety of conflict exists among humans. For example, in modern society, a teenager might be rejected to purchase a skateboard by his parents considering of that it would cause harm to him; a couple are arguing on the place they would like to travel for their 10th anniversary; group mates attempt to persuade each others to follow their individually different opinions… Obviously that conflict is unavoidable whenever and wherever humans exist on this planet.
Further more, according to Peter Koslowski’s argument, that human conflict are sometimes motivated by contrary or distinctive faith and declarations of various religions. In other words, appearing of conflict possibly symbolizes the “clash of religions”. (Koslowski P, pp1, 2001) Religion is the certain production with the development of
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