Essay On Self Preservation

As people often talk about good and evil as if there is objective value. We also insist and live in a culture where you can do good or bad and that there is a certain set of standards you could conform to to be considered good. For example, we call giving to the poor good and disobeying a cop bad, but is this true and exact? We, as humans, are, by nature, animals who are trying to survive in this world at the core, in the manner of self-preservation. When you consider that everyone truly looks out for their own self first, one quickly comes to the realization that there is no good nor evil; all there is is a desire for self-preservation based on the needs of an animal, war to obtain that status, and a hollow illusion of peace to try and maintain self-preservation

Here we have a war of American motivated anti-communism in a supposed justice battle killing multiple innocent civilians just for, at most, potentially supporting a different way of life that has no solid proof to be truly evil (as established, there is no objective good, bad, evil, etc.). In spite of this, many people consider Americans the rightful heroes of the Vietnam war, yet this instance refutes that whole idea, showing American soldiers acting on self-fulfillment and desire (whether is was rapping a woman, torturing a person, or just killing everyone to end the potential threats of self fulfillment). Though this is an more severe example, every-war shows this ideology. For example, the revolutionary war was fought between colonists who wanted to have a better form of taxation and treatment while the King wanted his gain from the colonies, which, at the time, was legally considered to be rightfully his. Regardless of any situation, all wars are fought because of a degree of self interest and a perceived, subjective vision of good, not for a justice vs injustice cause, like many people