Aggression

Aggression is built into most of the animal population. This includes the human population where aggression is programmed into our nature. We talked in class about whether humans are innately aggressive in nature and I agree that while aggression is in our nature it is not the nature of humans. We have aggression to help with competition and use it as a reason to actually try and do better. Aggression fuels competition, maybe not as much today but definitely back in our more primitive times it was how our ancestors survived.

Today while aggression does not rule our everyday lives it does help in the capitalistic society as it helps to fuel the competitive nature of business as our country has been set up. Not every human shows aggressive tendencies and many are completely passive. This is neither a good or bad thing it just helps us to need one another. If we were all aggressive by nature then we would either not have gotten this far with technology or we would have used technology in a way that destroyed us all. Overall aggression is a useful tool in many environments but a lack of aggressiveness means nothing as to the quality of that human therefore aggression is not the nature to describe human nature.