A Great Predator

One of the many realizations I have come to notice by reading The Selfish Gene is how lost humans are. We are desperately trying to find a purpose and a meaning for everything, and not very worried about the species itself. It is very true that humans are selfish beings. They have gotten to a point were they only care about their closed circles. There are obviously some exceptions, but in general, we do not care about what the person across the street does with his life. As I was looking for an article to write about I started thinking about our differences with animals? I found a blog by Olivia Judson (http://judson.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/13/a-long-melancholy-roar/#more-1285) called A long, Melancholy Roar. In this blog from the New York Times she mentions how many animals have caused deaths in recent years. The numbers seem large, but she then mentions “More recently, however, it’s been the case that the mammal most likely to kill a human is: a human. Murder and war have long been more important causes of death for us than predatory wild animals” (Olivia Jude). She is right. We can many times focus on how others kill us but we never think of how we kill ourselves. We are the greatest predators on the planet and don’t even notice it. What Dawkins suggests makes a lot of sense when you compare it to animal behavior.