Unthinkable - What means to be human?

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A couple of nights ago I watched a movie which in my humble opinion is one of the most thought provoking movies I have seen in many years, Unthinkable (Unthinkable is an American suspense thriller directed by Gregor Jordan and starring Samuel L. Jackson, Michael Sheen and Carrie-Anne Moss - and if you like, You can read the entire plot here in the Wikipedia).




By just watching this movie many of us will be put in very conflicting debates. Some of you could even see it as an anti- Muslims movie, but I don't see it as such because I believe it makes us reflect a little more on the real nature of humanity! It makes us ask questions like: is it morally permissible to commit terrible atrocities on other human beings when a given situation arises?

Anyway after watching it, I couldn't refrain to ask myself some moral questions like: how far I'm willing to go to save millions of lives by just using brutal methods to obtain vital informations without losing my own humanity?

Or could I keep more easily my own humanity and thus my moralities, by letting those millions to die of a sure death? What I meant is: let those millions be lost but at least I could have kept my sanity by not torturing those two poor children, after done with their father.

To be able of choosing and later to justify one of the above solutions, I do really need to be totally desensitized on the matter (gosh, what a horrible thought ).

Unthinkable Trailer 2010


This, "Unthinkable" movie poses a moral dilemma: how much someone is willing to reach a point of pure cruelty, by inflicting unimaginable pain to his/her procrastinated victim and his family in order to save a few millions?

In fact, This movie put a nude a simple truth! We as human being, are indeed capable of unthinkable acts of horror by being torturer, judge, and executioner of a human life, without respect for any morality knowing that if, when we weren't capable to react with necessary inhumanity to an imminent danger, later, we'll have to face tragic consequences because the lack of it (inhumanity).

In normal situations (as we like to think) we can be moralists and judgmental, but put ourselves in a tragic situation that demands some atrocities from our part in order to save many other our similar, then, our morals will for sure perish in this inconceivable (in normal conditions it would be inconceivable) process.

Final thought:

What will be left inside of us when it has been devoid of any trace of morality? What we will become? Of course after those terrible acts will be consummated, what we'll be left of us would be empty shells completely denuded by any sign of human decency.

Yeap! In a plain and simple way we'll be more like beasts, or worst, atrocious things walking on this earth.

In similar circumstances what you would do?

Home sapiens, a few miles behind their real evolution.

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Home sapiens's counter-evolution.

Today, I want to tell you a story about chimpanzees which I learned a long time ago while I was watching a PBS's documentary. This was a documentary on chimpanzees living in Africa, and the researchers on this documentary where trying to find similarities with us by watching these chimpanzees in action.

Chimps R Us.

One time, as I recall from the scenes of this documentary, a male dominant chimp quickly snagged from the arms of a female chimpanzee her newborn, and without paying any attention to the cries of the chimp mother, it gather together with a bunch of other male chimpanzees to feast on the body of the newborn chimp.

Now, that was really shocking when thinking that those primates are a part of our ancestor heritage. In spite of the fact, that several million years ago our ancestors branched off from the apes, we still share with them some violent characteristics which are genetically encoded, deep in our own genes.

When those human ancestors were walking on a young earth, those primitive humans probably did cannibalized on the weakest amongst them as did those apes in the documentary. On those remote times our ancestors did more than just cannibalism, they perpetrated more horrible crimes on the weakest of the people, for their insatiable taste of blood, and power.

You can say that's was in our past and now, now we are far better because we have evolved from our remote past. Today, only a few of us in our societies are capable of committing any criminal acts against the weakest part of humanity. We'll label those men as criminals, and we'll deal with them by isolating them as "bad elements" from the rest of the society with jail times. But, what about the rest of us, "the good elements" are we capable of committing horrendous acts against any other fellow human beings when we are put in particular situations.

I talking about human beings that have lived all their lives without committing any criminal intention, are they capable of committing bestial acts against their fellow human beings if, they are put in situations similar to the one that happened in the Du'a Khalil's case?

My point is, are we completely sure that any of us won't act as bloody heartless human being, if he's enforced in situations where he'll lose the total capacity of rational thinking. Will he, still be able to discern what it's right from what it's wrong when those malignant instincts, hidden deep inside hes subconsciousness will wake again under the pressure of aggression for power, dominance, money, religion, or whatever instigative motivations that in the end will act as a trigger in his own conscience by obfuscating its good moralities.

I'm not so sure about that! In all the probabilities, he as well all of us, we won't act any different than those men which committed that atrocious act on an innocent when ourselves are put in their same situation, because it is into our nature.



I bitterly believe we would, especially if we'll acts inside the comfort of a pack, like in a group of hunting animals, then our hidden animal instincts will implodes in all their ferociousness against any innocent victim, and not rationality whatsoever will stop us, thanks to those bestial instincts which are encoded deeply in our own genes, forever.

We are evolved intelligent beings with a dark site locked deep in a corner of our subconsciousness, and we are procrastinating the reality of what we really are, to the future generations.

Of course, to keep locked up those animal's instincts inside us, we have moralities. Nevertheless, moralities aren't enough for us be completely immune at those evil instincts. At any moment, they can surface transforming us in hideous monsters, unleashing all the violence we are capable of on other human beings, regardless of ours moralities.

Maybe in a couple of thousand years starting from now, we'll finally completely evolve from our past and present violences' history. Then, our societies in the future will really be free of any kind of violences and horrors, perpetrated in the name of false preconceptions, and beliefs.

A bitter...Red.eVolution