Lord of Flies

1. "Individuals are basically evil and must constantly fight against their violent nature."
I agree with this statement. Although I don't think that people are born evil I rather believe that the society impacts us either negatively or positively as we grow up and the people we surround ourselves with determine who we will become. An example of this from society being that kids that are raised in foster care tend to be frustrated and angry and express themselves through violence which later on as life keeps going tends to become a problem. Whereas children that are raised in a home with both parents that have a healthy relationship don't tend to have this problem.

2. "Individuals will go along with any type of activity, no matter how violent, when pressured by their peers." I agree with this statement to a certain extent, as it is true that many individuals are influenced largely by their environment and peers. But there are also some limits that an individual may not dare to pass, but mostlycommonly they will. An example can easily used from Skakespares play "Macbeth" where the protagonist Macbeth is influenced by his wife; Lady Macbeth into committing a murder. This shows how important people in our lives can have a influence and can add a certain pressure on us. 

3. "The human race is destined to destroy itself" I competely agree with this viewpoint, based on previous worldwide examples such as WWI and WWII. Both of these wars should how a build of events is enough for countries and society to go to a stage where they'll willing to go any extent to win. In both of these wars, billions of lives were lost, and in my eyes for nothing. I believe that this statement is true, that when the end of humanity comes, it will come from ourselves; humans. 

4. "Rules and punishments are absolutely necessary if we are to maintain a civilized society." I believe that rules and punishments are important to maintain a civilized society, because without rules, there is a window of opportunity for any possible disaster. Without rules and limits, the society that would be out of control and no longer called a society. The definition of society is aggregate of people living together in a more or less ordered community. In order for a community to be in control and organized there needs to be platform of rules and limits. An example of how important rules are is traffic, imagine living in a country with no traffic rules. Without these rules, there are countless ways to cause destruction to ourselves and others. 

5. "We are our own worst enemy." I can see what perspective this person may have looking at when they said this, because it is true in many cases. Everything that had envovled in society is because of humans. We create and destroy the world around us with every new piece of technology and knowledge. The world war examples can also be applied here again, because in those wars we proved that only a human would want to hurt another human in such ways. The holocaust is a unfortunate event in history that also shows how humans can be the cause of so many disasters that only harm ourselves. It's like we're slowly hurting ourselves and others around us on purpose.