Videos for week 10 - Human Relationships

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 The human need to be social creatures is something that I think is built into our DNA and the basics of survival. I believe this is due to most aspects that make a human, human, are the continuous and different relationships that come with interactions- people are a combination of everyone they've ever met. Along with humans being social creatures, bring isolation into the topic and there are no other people to learn and grow from resulting in the expected results of anxiety and depression. 

When watching the videos I was only able to watch one due to an upload issue but the video I did watch informed me I would think just as well. The video was "Evolution explains kindness-even when it kills us" by Paul Bloom which discussed Darwinianism and the kindness of strangers. Along with those themes were how if in any need of help people seem to have the instinct to do so. A reason for this is when bloom mentioned that when an injustice is happening whether near or far "from a gut level, an injustice done to[him] is so much worse than an injustice for people I've never heard of" which really stuck with me. The injustice example is something that can be seen all over the world when topics such as Palestine or BLM or the housing crisis in Hawaii people have an urgency to help. 

I really enjoyed this week's topic as it makes me remember that kindness in the world does exist even if it's not too visible all the time. I think even though violence is seen everywhere and usually a lot more than peace we forget that we have an innate knowledge that another life is just as important as one's own. When being social creatures I think if not everyone, myself personally, would rather experience love and violence than nothing at all. 

hey, I'm Trinity! Welcome to my blog x

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  1. Jasmine RigonanNovember 15, 2022 at 3:38 AM

    Hi Trinity! I totally agree that a person is a combination of everyone they've ever met in their life. Whether they've known each other for a short or long time, what matters is the impact that they left on that person. All it takes is that one key event or core memory with a certain person that'll make you remember them and what happened for forever. We grow and learn from each interaction with a person and that's what makes us who we are. It's good to hope that there is still kindness in the world, even if it doesn't make itself prominent in everyday life.

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