The Nature of Nature's Law Human beings are complex beings. They adapt, learn, have intelligence and free will, can reason, feel emotions and have a conscience. While such qualities and attributes elevate humans above the rest of other life forms, it is questionable where the idea of ​​consciousness and emotions come from. What exactly stimulates our responses to certain situations and problems? The answer lies in human nature. What we human beings believe is right or wrong is somehow dictated by something beyond the simple individual. The underlying question, then, becomes: what is that external influence: nature, our own inherent human qualities, or some man-made composite of other people and experiences? In more specific terms, the question is whether or not our morality and our adherence to a moral code is something fixed and constant throughout humanity itself. Francis Bacon stated that one must obey nature before one can use it, and the same concept applies to human beings. Before you can make any judgments about people, groups, ideas, or beliefs, you need to have a standard against which to compare this behavior. If there is no true Law of Nature, then no standard is set and one thing cannot be compared to another because the standard is set only by opinion, not by fact. In reality, the Law of Nature is a reality independent of man-made ideas, although the way humans think is certainly influenced by the environment. Let us first address the question of the impact of the environment on a person's moral development. In Bonfire of the Vanities, author Tom Wolfe quotes physiologist José Delgado, stating that "each person is a transitory composite of materials borrowed from the environment" (Wolfe 512). This concept is significant because it shows that people take certain aspects from the environment that ultimately shape their characters. The idea of ​​composite also shows that we are not simply independent individuals, but, as O'Malley describes, we are social beings (O'Malley 104). However, this does not mean that our intrinsic human nature is dictated by the environment; remember, Delgado says composite is transitory. If each person is not constant, then his instincts do not change, but only his logic changes. CS Lewis described the scenario of a man who sees a drowning person and has two instincts: to help him or to move forward, and usually the more self-protective instinct is stronger (Lewis Ch.