SOC203H1 Chapter Notes -Heredity
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Every disturbance of equilibrium, even though it achieves greater comfort and a heightening of general vitality, is an impulse to voluntary death. If industrial or financial crises increase suicides, it is because they are crises not because they cause poverty. No living being can be happy or even exist unless his needs are sufficiently proportioned to his means. If his needs require more than can be granted, or even merely something of a different sort, they will be under continual friction and can only function painfully. Quantity of material supplies necessary to the physical maintenance of a human. Beyond the indispensable minimum which satisfies nature when instinctive, a more awakened reflection suggests better conditions, seemingly desirable ends craving fulfillment. Such appetites, however, admittedly sooner or later reach a limit which they cannot pass. Nothing appears in man"s organic nor in his psychological constitution which sets a limit to such tendencies.
