Human beings should be more than animals, but are they really? In Republic, by Plato, Antigone, by Sophocles, The Aeneid of Virgil, by Virgil, and On Justice Power and Human Nature, by Thucydides, it seems as though human beings really are nothing more than animals.
Animals are thought of as not caring about anyone but himself or herself. It is survival of the fittest, if you are not strong enough, someone else will take your place. Human should be caring for other human beings, if someone is in trouble, another human should help them. This is not the way it is in these 3 works. Humans don't care about anyone but themselves, they kill so they can better themselves, and don't care what happens. It seems as people are getting murdered all the time to take power, and the killer, instead of being jailed, is now the leader.
In Plato's Republic, he basically designs a caste system. People are chosen at birth what level they will be in society, and there is nothing they can do......
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