SOC101Y1 Study Guide - Physical Restraint, Free Range, Social Forces
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* 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 --> will be under continual friction and can only function painfully. In the animal, at least in a normal condition, this equilibrium is established with automatic spontaneity because the animal depends on purely material conditions. All the organism needs is that the supplies of substance and energy constantly employed in the vital process should be periodically renewed by equivalent quantities; that replacement be equivalent to use. When the void created by the existence in its own recourses is filled, the animal, satisfied, asks nothing further. This is not the case with man, because most of his needs are not dependent on his body or not to the same degree. For beyond the indispensable minimum which satisfies nature when instinctive, a more awakened reflection suggests better conditions, seemingly desirable ends craving fulfillment.
