"For man is more sick...than any othe ranimal...he is the sick animal...he is the great experimenter with himself, discontented and isatiable, wrestling with animals nature, and gods for ultimate dominion...The No he says to life brings to light, as if by magic, an abundance of tender Yeses; even when he wounds himself, this master of destruction, of self-destruction-the very wound itself afterward compels him to live" (Nietzsche 121).

We talked about this passage in class. Man wants to feel alive by facing death instead of running away from it. Sometimes feeling pain is better than feeling nothing at all. This reminds me of something we talked about in my AP psych class last year. There is actually a condition in which people have over-active frontal lobes in their brains. This causes a thrill-seeking mentality that isn't easy fulfilled. If it isn't bad enough that man seeks danger as a form of entertainment, there are certain people with this condition that never find this thrill and seek it to the point of death. Feeling like your life is in jeopardy somehow makes life seem so real. I get that thrill at the top of a roller coaster, some people get it from sky diving, others just have a physiological condition that is never satisfied.