According to the definition “Human being is a social animal” Now, Social animal refers to an animal which is highly interactive with other members of its species. So in the list of social animals; technically ants, termites, wild dogs and lions also join up with Humans.
Human nature is nothing but animal behavior expressed in complex and varied ways. The simple aggression of animal gets transformed into numerous clones like anger, jealousy, annoyance, contempt and Rage in civilized Human. Similarly the love in animals gets mutated into different versions such as sympathy, love, caring, compassion and pity in Humans.
In fact, Human is a single species which exhibits sum total of all behavior of Animals. A Lioness will protect its cubs with all her strength and a Wolf spider can kill its own Young. But Humans can show both behaviors. That is why I call Humans “MORE ANIMAL THAN ANY ANIMAL”.
So if Human being is more Animal-like then where the difference lies with respect to Animals?
Which is one thing that is Unique to Humans and Human Society?
Which is that one nature of Humans thay had not derived from their Animal ancestors?
Which is the ultimate differentiator between Humans and Animals?
Human nature is nothing but animal behavior expressed in complex and varied ways. The simple aggression of animal gets transformed into numerous clones like anger, jealousy, annoyance, contempt and Rage in civilized Human. Similarly the love in animals gets mutated into different versions such as sympathy, love, caring, compassion and pity in Humans.
In fact, Human is a single species which exhibits sum total of all behavior of Animals. A Lioness will protect its cubs with all her strength and a Wolf spider can kill its own Young. But Humans can show both behaviors. That is why I call Humans “MORE ANIMAL THAN ANY ANIMAL”.
So if Human being is more Animal-like then where the difference lies with respect to Animals?
Which is one thing that is Unique to Humans and Human Society?
Which is that one nature of Humans thay had not derived from their Animal ancestors?
Which is the ultimate differentiator between Humans and Animals?
I call this the “Sense of Justice”. If a young one of an animal is neglected in its childhood, it will not seek revenge. But a Human child will develop a lifelong feeling of contempt as a mechanism of “self-delivered justice” if such thing happens to him/her.
Let us see this picture in terms of society. If a lion kills a deer, the “deer society” will not seek revenge for killing one of their own. But if person of one community kills a person of another person the whole community can clash with another community. In terms of nations, a weaker nation can seek to guerrilla warfare, terrorism etc. with superior nation as tit-for-tat for meting out injustice to them. All this is nothing but a unique behaviour of humans motivated by sense of justice.
Sense of Justice is the point where the ruthless laws of nature vanish. And where the weaker seek “even out” with superior. It seeks to fight rather than submit to superiority. Sense of Justice is the only gift of civilization to Humans.
The prime function of government was to deliver this essential need of humans i.e. the justice. From King Solomon to the more recent Judiciary... delivering justice is most important for the government. If any government fails to keep justice and society degrades to the one more governed by ruthless rules of Jungle than the rules of civilization...such government is fit to be thrown out in order to save the Human civilization.
