Why The Reckless Survive Analysis

In the essay “Why the Reckless Survive” by Melvin Konner, the author describes why individuals perform reckless activities. Konner also explains that people do no think clearly about the risks that they are taking, and provides assumptions about why we do what we do. In the essay “In Wildness is the Preservation of the World” by Michael Dirda, the author states that we should re-inspire our children with noble ideals, and persuade them to build a new world. In the essay by Melvin Konner the author provides many sources such as psychologists, physicians, sociologists and many more to explain his assumptions about why people participate in reckless behavior. The author also states why people do no think appropriately when performing these reckless

Just like Konner said we do not follow the advice that we get from others or even each other because I know I don’t. Furthermore, I feel like we as individuals do overestimate some risks more than others because we do not look at the realities of the risks being taken. For instance, I know the consequences of my actions, and more importantly I know what I want, but no such knowledge exists because knowledge is imperfect. Moreover, the connections that I made with the material from “In Wildness is the Preservation of the World” is that I am always in account with good and evil but having high standards will always allow me to be victorious. I feel like just as long as people share common goals and have feelings of excitement it will allow people to look up to and learn form them. To conclude, I cannot use these essays to write an argument because I feel like I couldn’t really relate that much to them in order for me to provide a strong argument essay. I feel like these particular essays do not really have many connections between them making it hard for me to provide evidence for my