Our love for animals

For some reason after I had finished the reading due, I could not think of what exactly to write about. But I had two points that I wanted to talk about. One point was more spoken of than the other, but to me, they were equally interesting. My first point was the role that the need of love and belonging played in the structure of our advancement as humans. My other point was referencing the domestication of animals and the impact it had on Humanity. Love and belonging were mentioned on the pyramid of hierarchy mentioned in the beginning. It was not directly talked about but in the image provided, I noticed it. It was interesting that it was placed as the third level, right after the security level but before the esteem level.

According to the image provided of the pyramid of the hierarchy needs, love and belonging is only somewhat important, that’s why it has been placed right in the middle of it. As was said in the reading, the pyramid was originally made to describe the process of a single human. It’s difficult to see how this could apply to civilizations of people and what was required of them. To me, it’s very hard to understand how the safety needs come before the needs of love and belonging. Every person has a family, whether they choose to be recognized or not, they are born into it and receive some love, while every civilization doesn’t really have a solid origin, it develops over time into something big or they perish. If a civilization is made up of people, I don’t understand how this level could be included in the advancement of humanity in general if not everybody develops in the same way. How is the advancement of humanity similar to the development of an individual when compared using the pyramid of hierarchy and analyzing with prior knowledge? Well, to me, the pyramid actually seems more relative to the process of advancement that humanity and each civilization is required to go through if it is wished to continue and not die out. The pyramid goes from basics needs to optional needs. The true basics that are food, water, and shelter, the basics needed for survival such as finding safety. It makes sense for humanity to need to find these first before seeking a higher level of thinking because it is hard to look for something that it needed but mostly just wanted without first taking care of what is more immediately needed.

My other point was the domestication of animals. What caused humanity to feel the need or want to domesticate animals? Why did this process affect our population so much and could this step in advancing been avoided completely or was it necessary sooner or later?  This process and it’s affects were talked about in the reading and I still found myself wondering why these things happened. I think that it could have been that humanity was lonely and felt the need to connect more with nature and the environment by interacting with the animals around them. In the hunter-gatherer societies and ever since that, humans hunted animals and interaction with them happened at a certain level, why did the domestication of some of these animals result in the decrease of population and the spread of diseases?