We’re a Shaky Species
Someone said that to me today:
He said it several times, in an effort to explain the peculiar things that humans do that just don’t make sense. Beyond peculiar, actually. He was talking about the awful things that humans do, the things that hurt people, the things that they probably don’t want to do but do anyway, because they can’t stop themselves.
His goal was not to defend humanity or anyone in particular or to justify any of it, but just to try and explain it, to assign some logic to human behavior. We all know damn well, I think, that it can’t always make sense. Logic isn’t good enough when it comes to why people do what they do.
So this is about as good an explanation as I’ve ever heard.
"We’re a shaky species."
He said it several times, in an effort to explain the peculiar things that humans do that just don’t make sense. Beyond peculiar, actually. He was talking about the awful things that humans do, the things that hurt people, the things that they probably don’t want to do but do anyway, because they can’t stop themselves.
His goal was not to defend humanity or anyone in particular or to justify any of it, but just to try and explain it, to assign some logic to human behavior. We all know damn well, I think, that it can’t always make sense. Logic isn’t good enough when it comes to why people do what they do.
So this is about as good an explanation as I’ve ever heard.
“We’re a shaky species.”Indeed.
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