I strongly disagree with Darwin’
ideas that opposes humanistic values like altruism and generosity because even
though it is true that humans tend to be
competitive and selfish, it is also true that humans could not have survived in
nature without the charity and generosity that each society offers. Moreover, something that we should all keep in
mind is that without charity, love and all the good things there wouldn’t be compassion
and harmony. In addition, in our daily day life we can see how people help each
other when there are in trouble or when someone really needs help. For example,
as Olivia Judson mentions in her book “Selfless Genes” “Humans
often risk their lives for strangers—think of the firemen going into the World
Trade Center—or for people they know but are not related to.”(Judson 1) when others
are in danger humans express generosity and care for others just as they care
for their family members.
Similarly,
in the "The Selfish Gene” by Richard"Dawkins, Dawkins discuss
many of the Darwin’s ideas about humans natural selection, by discussing this
Dawkins says that Darwin’ ideas are right; however we can override biology with
free will and we should see Darwinism as
awful warning for how we should not organize our societies. Also, in the story
of “Us or Me” by Ian McEwan we can see how a group of people get together
to safe a person that they don’t even know and this action proof that Darwin’s
only see from a “scientific” method and don’t really see how humans can show compassion
for others without expecting something back. In conclusion, it is true that sometimes
humans are “selfish” when it comes to our own interests however; we can also be
selfless when it comes to protect and help those in needed because by the end
of the day it’s what makes us human.
