Importance of the Human Being

Serena Cuoghi
Title of Professor of Biology

The human being is definitely the strangest thing that exists on the face of the Earth. He has an unlikely ability to think, feel, communicate and create, as different from how he can do it any other form of life, that for that reason alone we end up claiming to be superior to the rest of the existence. And, although this superiority is really debatable and questionable, one thing we can take for certain: we must not ignore the role and influence we play, as we are responsible for the way our own species in society develops and evolve.

If we approach the importance of the human being from a philosophical perspective, we observe a conscious and autonomous being, therefore, with the ability to make decisions - good or bad – and act accordingly, which gives us great responsibility for the way we treat ourselves and others the rest. In addition to the above, human beings are capable of having a moral conscience, which means that we have the ability to construct an assessment of what is right or wrong and assume this information to make the pertinent decisions, which should mostly lean towards the side of what is moral, ethical and even personally correct, however, this assessment scale It can vary depending on multiple factors, becoming one of the aspects that make us most different and unrepeatable, even among ourselves, as individuals of the same species.

All-proof

Scientifically, the appreciation of the human being falls on his own biological facts and on how he has been able to take full advantage of the evolutionary benefits that he was accumulating throughout the ages, such as having developed a brain that up to now is presented as the most complex and advanced of all living beings, which gives us It allows us to have a cognitive, conscious and even motor capacity above what the brain of any other species could do, or at least we believe that until now. moments.

In addition, our physical and mental abilities have allowed us to develop technologies and create complex cultures and societies through which We have managed to generate transformations and changes in the world, although not all with positive results, especially for the rest of the inhabitants of the planet. However, this ability has led us to become true experts when it comes to trying to mold absolutely everything to suit our needs. our own needs, becoming a species so resistant to changes in the environment, that a potential human extinction already It is only considered viable if the human being himself, either intentionally or accidentally, causes his self-execution. massive.

Obviously, for a scenario like that to be possible, it would imply that all the other species on the planet could also run with the same luck, or even, that the very earth could come to suffer such disturbances that life on it was no longer possible, however, all these are apocalyptic lucubrations that we are not supposed to dedicate ourselves to materializing, as a consequence of the good judgment that we should have thanks to our evolution superior.

Human behavior

Socially and culturally speaking, we are beings in need of a gregarious life by nature, which is why we are constantly seeking to establish connections with others. others, creating interpersonal ties that transcend the mere fact of family consanguinity, even more so in recent decades, due to the proliferation and massification in the use of new technologies and social networks, which in turn has generated new and profound impacts on human behavior and the way in which which society had been evolving, so now the future outlook becomes even less predictable with respect to what the human being of tomorrow will be capable of achieve.

The damages to be compensated

The human being is also important from an ecological point of view. We are an integral part of the terrestrial ecosystem, and we have a great responsibility in the way we treat the environment, even if it is difficult for us to accept it and even more so to commit ourselves to it. The degradation of the environment and the loss of biodiversity are serious problems that we have caused and that put life on Earth at risk, for Therefore, it becomes our responsibility to create mechanisms and take actions with which to protect and restore the ecological balance and achieve also create a more just, equitable and sustainable world, but only if we take our responsibility seriously and work together to achieve these goals.

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