Human Nature Causes Superiority

The subject of sanity is addressed in The Tell-Tale Heart. Through our annotations of the story we all said that the narrator was unreliable, and though his actions throughout the story, we decide that he must in fact be insane. Though I'm not disputing the narrator's loss of insanity as it is evident in The Tell-Tale Heart that his sanity hangs by a thread until it is finally cut by the heartbeat that drives him insane. I find the the question of the narrator's sanity interesting because to him everything he was doing was within reason. The narrator's plan to kill the old man was logical because it would then release him from his torment that resulted for the old man's evil eye. To the narrator he was living in an exaggerated reality, but he did not believe himself to be insane, not even to the very end when he admits to have committed the crime. He is simply different and he assumes to be superior. Human nature tends causes humans to assume that nothing is wrong with ourselves but with others who are not like us or oppose us. Which is what happens to the narrator in The Tell-Tale Heart. I have witnessed many problems that come from this part of human nature, it is often what spurs most arguments. For if someone has a different opinion about something important to you, then obviously they are wrong and you are right. One example could be the controversial issue of abortion and its legality. The people that are pro-life, the group as a whole (each individual is different), refuse to believe that those who are pro-choice could possibly have a different opinion that is real to them, therefore they are wrong and pro-life is the only way to go. The opposing sides will not allow the other side to be right because each is more superior than the other, it doesn't matter if they simply have a different perspective. So, it is with the narrator in The Tell-Tale Heart, he claims that the police officers are villans making him the superior in his alternate reality. Human nature forces us to believe that we are superior and anyone different is inferior.