Lord of the Flies response

1. I do not believe that everyone is evil. People are products of their environment. Everyone has a choice of who they want to be. A violent nature is a downfall of the situations that a person chooses to place themselves in.

Ex. There are a group of friends and the "leader" says for everyone to go beat up that kid for his lunch money. The others have a choice on wether or not they will partake in these violent and cruel actions to fit in with the leader. There are a few genuine human beings within that friend group that decide to not be the bully because it is not in their nature to be violent, therefore the choice to be good or evil was made by solely themselves.

2. Different personalities can handle certain situations better than others. While peer pressure is not an easy thing to escape, it is not impossible to escape it either. Majority of the time, especially in today's society, individuals do give in to peer pressure. Everything has to do with social standings and how someone can make it to the top of the popularity food chain and with that social struggle, comes stupidity and desperate measures. I do agree that majority of individuals go along with anything they are pressured into doing no matter how extreme because of the urge to not be an outcast.

3. The human race is destined to destroy itself. There is no such thing as everyone being at peace with one another. Things such as jealousy, anger and fear, which are themes in the Lord of the Flies, are going to be the contributors to the self distruction of the human race. There have been wars over land, race, religion, etc... and none of those things are worth fighting over. It's all petty personality and power hungry conflict that causes lives to be taken everyday, so unless people start believing in equality and the true meaning of world peace, I am saying that the human race is destined to destroy itself.

4. I do believe that rules and punishments are necessary if we are to maintain a civilized society. Without boundaries, this world would be a mess. There would be more conflict due to the different beliefs about all actions. The world would be chaos because without rules and regulations, people would feel invincible and conflict would arise over things such as, "That homeless man stole a banana because he was hungry, so I'm going to steal my neighbor's car because my husband is at work with mine and I want to go to the mall and no one can say anything because that's not a crime anymore and they can't put me in jail."
Crime and murder rates would most likely be extremely high and civil people would eventually give up and become barbaric just like the rest.

5. Everyone is their own worst enemy. Everyone over-thinks and questions themselves at some point. We are our own worst critic and a lot of the time that makes us our own enemies.