The Unpremeditated Barbarity in Humans Clarence Darrow once said, “every instinct that is found in any man is in all men. The strength of the emotion may not be so overpowering, the barriers against possession not so insurmountable, the urge to accomplish the desire less keen. With some, inhibitions and urges may be neutralized by other tendencies. But with every being the primal emotions are there. All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike some one they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.” Here, he demonstrates that in all men is an inclinations to kill. The idea that in the root of all human’s mind is bestiality is an idea that is abundantly exercised but also denounced by many. …show more content…
In chapter 15 upon arguing over whether Candide could marry Cunegonde or not the Baron in an “instant struck Candide across the flat of his sword. Candide in an instant drew his rapier, and plunged it up to the hilt in the Jesuit’s belly.” Both the Baron and Candides’s instincts were to not think rationally but instead to act violently towards each other, ultimately leading to Cunegonde’s brother demise. Here, Candide was not morally thinking of what he was doing but instead trying to achieve a greater goal which was to be able to marry Cunegonde. His fight or flight instinct was to kill the person who was in the way of his potential marriage. Another instance where Candide commits a homicide is when “he took up his double-barreled Spanish fusil, let it off, and killed the two monkeys.” Again, Candide does not kill the monkeys for a lack of moral character, but for the purpose of trying to impress the two naked girls. Instead of thinking rationally, his first instinct was to murder the two monkeys. If he had waited just a few moments he could have seen that the monkeys were the two girls