Francis Fukuyama Week 1 Post 3

I enjoyed the Francis Fukuyama interview so much that I am doing two posts on it.  There were many different topics being discussed but one that really stook out was when the interviewer said to Fukuyama, “History has a direction and in some ways its toward the good.”  I personally believe that every person comes pre-wired with the instinct to make the human species live on.  We all come pre-wired to mate and produce life and we all come pre-wired to protect it as often as possible. However, if you ask a group of men, if they were to be walking with their family and saw someone getting beat up on a street corner, would they help that person? There would be a barage of different answers.

 

            Fukuyama responded to this statement by the interviewer with the words, “Most people argue progress should be progress towards morality. The principle that Liberal Democracy embodies is, radius of trust between different societies should encompass all of humanity. There's a moral universalism to it.” It would be nice if most men would help a stranger in a time of need but the reality of the matter is most people probably wouldn't. People dont do things for the better of humanity. People do things for the betterment of themselves and their loved ones. Not to say they wouldn't want everyone to be helped but people usually look out for themselves.