Humans and Our Rationality
Proof that us humans are very rational creatures, and also very survivalistic creatures.
A basic test that can instantly tell we humans are rational is that most of us are afraid of the dark, on some primal level. The reason being is that the “dark” is the unknown, and althought we do not like the unknown, we do not dislike it either. Eventually us humans explore the unknown and discover things for the good or bad of the human race.
As an example in primal times, A caveman is desperate for a place to sleep and escape the cold of a raging blizzard, he finds a cave but is somewhat reluctant to enter due to the aforementioned rationality, yet his will to survive forces him into the cave.
Most of the time, when it comes to technology, we humans leap at the chance to progress in it, but other studies such as the human genome project could have extreme side-effects on us a race and therefore less people are willing to explore into the unknown void know as genetical modification or restoration, yet our will to survive and always improve upon ourselves will eventually drive us to rely on the genome project for the future. This proves that altought humans are rational, our subconscious will to survive will almost always over-ride that rationality, completely forgetting long-term effects for short-term effects.
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