Human Reasoning In Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography

In Benjamin Franklin’s autobiography Franklin speaks of human reasoning, explaining how he himself reasoned his way to eating fish without eating animal food. Although Franklin does oppose his agreement of not eating animal food, he argues how humans are these “reasonable creatures” that can come up with a good reason for them to do what they want.

A reason is like an excuse that can be used to get what you want. Franklin argues that humans are “reasonable creatures” that are enable to create a reasonable answer for anything they want, which he gives an example of with his reasoning to eat fish without opposing his agreement to not feed animal food. “Then I thought, if you eat one another, I don’t see why we mayn’t eat you”, he comes up