Genghis Khan, Christopher Columbus and Adolf Hitler to name a few are known for killing, but why? Why did Columbus set foot on the land he did, see beautiful and selfless people and decide to kill upwards of a million? Why was Adolf in such conflict with Jews, homosexuals and impaired that he ordered the death of close to 15 million? And Khan, to create the largest contiguous empire ever, killed 40 million individuals; In the name of conquest hundreds of millions of lives have been taken through history but why? Suppression of oppression clearly, but not so much when you really look at it closely. Not to say it's perfect but the adversaries could be exiled like the natives by the US government. But killing fellow humans is what these people did and I believe it is human nature.
Christopher Columbus was so set on getting what he wanted (gold) that he hurt huge quantities of people that were just trying to help him. Do not use this technique within rhetoric. Hurting the audience is a huge turnoff and will not successfully change their minds. Being selfish will reflect, so put your listeners first, and the rest will fall into place. I am glad we had to read the piece of literature on Christopher Columbus; it connected me more deeply to the successful techniques of rhetoric.
ReplyDeleteHonestly if I killed a bird I would be torn up about it for a long time. To me, any death is incredibly sad (no matter how irrelevant you think their life is). I think it is wrong to kill anyone, let alone people who were trying to help you. Columbus had no reason to kill the natives who were helping him other than greed. I definitely think that greed is apart of human nature which can lead to some unpleasant outcomes. Not everyone who is envious goes out and kills people, if this were the case I'd say that it could be human nature. We look back at people such as Hitler and think "wow that is one horrible viscous human being". If it was human nature I don't think that people would view him how they do.
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