Human Nature as Competitive

Thomas Hobbes believes that humans are born equal. He means the bodies and minds of newborn people are of equal ability. One person sometimes becomes stronger in body or quicker in mind than another. When one becomes stronger in body, the person can claim he is better than another is. This causes other people around him to become threatened and jealous by the stronger person. People are more equal when it come to wisdom of …

…lot of truth. Humans are very competitive and selfish creatures who want everything they can get their hands on. Humans are not born competitive, but they grow up thinking others are better than they in some way are. Then they try to justify to others, through competition, that they too are worthy of recognition. I think in our society that competing through the accumulation of material items is the strongest form of competing human nature.