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Human Nature: Experiences, Occupation, And Education

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Human nature is complex. Moreover, my philosophy on human nature changes based on experiences, occupation, and education. My position as a high school assistant principal has changed my “almost perfect” world, as I saw it. Human Nature; I believe we are born with certain instinctual needs such as survival, sex drive, love, acceptance, relationships. In addition, I believe human nature has given us the instinct to react in ways that are sometimes unacceptable, socially, to fulfill these needs. For example; the movie “ALIVE” (1993) is a great representation of how human nature, the need to survive, overcomes our moral standards. A rugby team crashed in the Andes with very little to no resources. In order to survival they were forced
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