Human Nature essays

Human Nature essays From the first day Homo sapiens walked the Earth until now, the thought of conquering was conceived in their minds. No matter what the object of their desire is, or what task will help them to acquire it, humans will have what they want. People are obsessed with owning land, since the Roman Empire people have been murdered and whole cities pillaged, for a piece of land. The United States was founded due to a group of people, who were searching for a piece of their own land. They came to this country, and to their surprise, were people known as Indians. The Indians did not call the land theirs, yet they lived on it and used their environment to help them live. The English did not care about what the Indians had done or could do; they just got rid of them as quickly as possible. When there is land, which is valuable to more than one person, there is always going to be a dispute over who owns the land or not. Which usually leads to fighting, then later on, to a war. The idea to conquer is still engrained into the minds of people all over the world. Today, the difference is, the desire to conquer has evolved into the hostile takeover of forests and the demolishing of fields. Today our big dispute is over oil. Whos is it? Who gets to use it? We are in a war, basically, over who owns and uses these dinosaur remains. The oil helps make our gas. The gas helps us move around and do certain things. Who says its anyones? How can you own what is underground? How can you really say I own these four acres and thirty feet below them too? The world has just become a twisted place that feeds off of greed and death. We have evolved so quickly, I believe we are beginning to de-evolve. All around the area where I live, mass construction sites are springing up everywhere you look. The amount of neighborhoods, shopping malls, golf courses, and gas stations is getting to be a little outrageous. There are so many empty bu ...