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A condensed version of an essay I wrote:

It has long been said that in addition to superior information processing skills, it is their emotion and moral consciences that put the human race above and beyond the rest of the animal kingdom. This claim is erroneous, however. Obviously it differentiates humans from the animal kingdom, but emotions and morals often retard progress in almost all areas of society, drastically decreasing the efficiency of the entire human race.
Especially recently, scientists have proposed ways to create new medicines to cure anything from hair loss to Alzheimer’s Disease. The optimal method testing that has been proposed is either on animals or via Stem Cell Research. However, religious organizations and animal activists have loudly protested these methods, calling them cruel and inhumane. As a result, some of the most revolutionary ideas in the field of medical science have been effectively stonewalled, and millions will die because Susan didn’t want Fefe to get hurt.
These foolish ideals are not only applicable to lofty ideas we hope to pursue, but also to the here and now, things that are achievable and would greatly benefit the American population. Oil supplies are getting lower and lower every day, and oil prices are rising. Researchers have found a voluminous oil supply in Alaska. Tapping this supply will not only provide much needed relief in terms of how much oil is left, but it will also fully alleviate our dependency on foreign oil markets. The benefits are clear, and would be vast, but the expanse of oil could not be pursued because the oil is located largely in an animal reservation, and animal activists have fiercely opposed such drilling. These activists groups are willing to inconvenience millions of their brethren in order to save a group of animals they will more than likely never see. The US economy is deteriorating every day and could be helped, but relief will not come because some people decided providing a safe haven for animals in the middle of the wilderness is more important than their own kind.
Even when the correct logical decision is reached, a melee is caused by those who feel the actions were unjust. Several years into World War II the Japanese decided to flex their militaristic muscles by blindsiding the American Military and bombing Pearl Harbor, killing American soldiers with neither warning nor remorse. The American Military responded in kind by dropping two atomic bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima. This seems like an over reaction, but the choice was simple: Either we end the conflict or we risk thousand more American deaths. Yet even the commander who issued the droppings regretted his choice. The dropping of the A-bomb not only ended the WWII conflict with the Japanese, but they haven’t tried to start another one since then, yet people still regret the choice.
The benefits of emotion, ethics, and morals are minuet. Throughout history wars have been caused, and are still going on, because of differences in opinions. The crusades were entirely caused because one group of people felt they were right, and another felt they were right. Because of this simple disagreement, thousands upon thousands died all because they couldn’t just forget what they felt and take the most beneficial course and share the territory.
To conclude, morals and emotion do not benefit a society, they perform quite the opposite. Meaningful advances are stifled, beneficial processes are retarded because what some people think is right gets in the way of what course of action should be taken.



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