opposable thumb, the ability to make and use specialized tools, articulate speech, and a

highly developed brain..." This definition merely describes the physical features of

mankind but it does not truly define man. Authors and philosophers have tried for

centuries to define human behavior but they all seem to have a different definition and a

different perspective about man. Perhaps it is so difficult to classify human nature due to

the fact that man is simply potential. Man has the potential to do either good or evil; the

potential to create or to destroy; the potential to love or to hate. Man is a creature that has

been provided with all the tools for greatness but yet it struggles because it is not exempt

from mistakes which it does make in the many choices that one faces in life.

People usually say that our ability to think and utilize tools is what separates us

from the animals, but in my opinion, our great potential is what truly separates our race.

Animals are bound by their intellectual and physical limits. An animal is born into

fields. Our former president may be correct that man is the only animal who plans his own

personality." This quote from Erich Fromm shows that man is somewhat like an empty

scientists and researchers that dedicate their lives to searching for cures to try and

is also certainly true that man is the only animal that tries so hard to save his kind. As

will have any meaning but often people tend to forget that many choices come with

container that can choose what it wants to be filled up with. For people, it is most

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