The Night You Ruined Your Pajamas And Measures Of

Many behavioral biologists seek answers to the mysterious interactions between the human’s minds and bodies. Robert M. Sapolsky, American neurosurgeon, neuroscientist, professor of biology at Stanford University, researcher and author of the book The Trouble With Testosterone and Other Essays on the Biology of the Human Predicament. This book shows the reader why people act the way they do and what goes on when an event occurs. Sapolsky covered many topics about the human body and brain and how they are related to his area of research. There are many crucial topics that are interesting, but we will only discuss The Night You Ruined Your Pajamas and Measures of Life in this essay.

Almost everyone in this world has gone through a stage in life

That explains the existence of courts for people to justify their misdemeanor. In chapter the Measures of life, Sapolsky describes about how the human brain copes with guilt. The author demonstrates this piece of writing using a lot of logos. One example Sapolsky uses was the firing squad back in the nineteenth century. This example was exceptionally mind-blowing because I would never have thought or knew about it without reading this book. Back in the nineteenth century, all serious crimes were punished with execution. A group of 5 soldiers will shoot the criminal at the same time during this execution; however one of the five solder will have a blank bullet loaded up in their gun. This is because when the shots are fired, they it to be uncertain of who actually killed the criminal. Therefore, it will be easier for the soldiers to go home and live a normal life. A psychological explanation for this is that since none of the soldiers knew who had the empty bullet, they would not carry the guilt and held the responsibility for killing the criminal. This idea has bewildered my mind because in reality; no one wants to be guilty because they cannot handle the consequences or the traumatic damage that it will do to the brain. Guilt is something that stays with the person after they did something damaging. For example, when I was young, my brother and I broke my mom’s favorite vase, but because I was afraid to admit that I knocked it off of the table, I blamed it on my little brother. I was afraid to admit what I did and had sleepless nights because my little brother was scolded and punished instead of me. I could not sleep or eat for days because of what I did to my little brother. I then told my mom the truth and accepted the consequences. Although I was grounded for a very long time for lying and breaking the vase; my guilt was lifted. I lived a normal life again after that, being able to