The Inhumanity of Humans

Inhumanity is defined as the lack of pity or compassion. Its synonyms include words like savagery and brutality.  On the other hand, humanity is described as the quality or condition of being human, with synonyms like sympathy, tenderness and goodwill. I personally believe they are erroneous, and should be flipped. Humans are savages; they are discerned by their lack of condolence and empathy towards others and they seem to be incapable of sympathy or goodwill. But, why is it they are this way?

What is it that makes humans so greedy and so inhumane? Is it power or is it money? The abuse towards the black race seen in this novel is incredible. It is amazing how we humans which are supposed to be so humane, are so crude.  What Marlow describes as humans when he arrives to Africa was as follows: "They were dying slowly, it was very clear. They were no enemies, they were not criminals, they were nothing earthly now, nothing but black shadows of disease and starvation, lying confusedly in the greenish gloom...these moribund shapes were free as air-and nearly as thin." (pg. 28) These people who endure a terrible quality of life, who are deprived of their own rights and freedom are also left to die like this. Why are we so ungrateful? They were the people that gave us what we had. Without them we wouldn't have had all the luxuries we enjoyed on a daily basis. Our clothing, our food, they ivory from our pianos. It all came from work of them, each was carved by some pair of black hands in some corner of  africa, and we don't even acknowledge their existence. We treated them as if they were machines and animals, without any type of care. Instead of working to get what we wanted, we made them work for us without giving them anything in return. Not even some dignity. 

Greed makes us act this way. The belief that money and power will make us indestructible gives us that sense of supperiority. We feel we have the right to treat men like animals, like bodies without souls. We feel we have the power to to tie them up together and chain them up. To Beat them up and take everything away from them. It is shameful that things like this happened once upon a time. They, humans just like the rest of us, should've been treated like treasures, not like trash.