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humanity?

Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
in Politics & Debate
what is it?

i feel we have lost sight of what we are.

what makes you a human?
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Humanity to me is the ability to ask the question "what is humanity". ;)
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    wooooooooah wrote:
    Humanity to me is the ability to ask the question "what is humanity". ;)
    ya brung this thread to an end friggin quick! :D
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    morrocan roll wrote:
    ya brung this thread to an end friggin quick! :D
    Oops... :lol: I'm sure there are other interpretations??
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Is being a human the same as having Humanity?

    Is humanity more then a descripton? Is it an ideal? Is it a way to live? Or is it just what we are no matter how we act?
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Mad Mac wrote:
    what makes you a human?
    DNA
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    -[MoonRat]- wrote:
    DNA
    everything else that lives has friggin dna!
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    morrocan roll wrote:
    everything else that lives has friggin dna!
    But it's the particular bit of DNA you have that makes you so special! :D
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    wooooooooah wrote:
    But it's the particular bit of DNA you have that makes you so special! :D
    why thankyou ...i thought no one had noticed!
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    morrocan roll wrote:
    why thankyou ...i thought no one had noticed!
    Never been on www.the_rolly_fan_club.com??? :D
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    fuckin genius!

    i'm getting fucked off with this place.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Mad Mac wrote:
    fuckin genius!

    i'm getting fucked off with this place.
    i bet you pressed the link to my fan club though ... :thumb:
































    i did ... :banghead:
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    its wank rolly,i think i'm off tbh
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I don't think anyone could hold their hand up and say they honestly wouldn't try it mate!
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Having a sense of family, community, empathy, sharing with others, breathing, knowing that life is fragile and should be lived to the max.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Knowing that, no matter how shite life gets, at least I don't have to wake up and live with the fact I support Tottenham Hotspur.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Humanity is just an other word for human race... you are a human when you have the body/dna of a human...
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Having a sense of family, community, empathy, sharing with others, breathing, knowing that life is fragile and should be lived to the max.

    Doesn't thate exclude a lot of people?
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    -[MoonRat]- wrote:
    Doesn't thate exclude a lot of people?
    Breathing is fairly inclusive.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Unless you're dead.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Yes breathing... But animals and plants breath too.

    As for the other characteristics, if they were seen as what defines a human then you may as well exclude people with mental retardation, autistic spectrum disorders, mental illness, people in comas, the brain damaged ect
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Plants don't breathe, and we're not defining what is a human but what is humanity - what sets humans apart from other life, really.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Kentish wrote:
    Plants don't breathe, and we're not defining what is a human but what is humanity - what sets humans apart from other life, really.
    Humanity is a group of humans. You cannot define a flock of birds without first knowing what a bird is.

    What is a human? I would say that it is strictly down to DNA. To impose for example that humans are empathetic, feel a sense of community, family and share things is too equivocal. How can you measure all of these? How can you say this is universal when cultures are so diverse?
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I think therefore I am
    Is it conscious thought that sets us apart? Rather than an instinctive reaction.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    We aren't the only self-aware animals...
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    Teh_GerbilTeh_Gerbil Posts: 13,332 Born on Earth, Raised by The Mix
    I think therefore I am is a flawed statement.

    You can only claim "I think therefore there are thoughts."
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    But there has to be something to think the thoughts, they can't exist on their own, hence 'I am'.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    "Cogito ergo sum"/"I think therefor I am" was about whether or not one exists, not whether they're human.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Mmmyeah but I was trying to think about what sets us apart from other animals, as in, do animals philosophise like this?
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    -[MoonRat]- wrote:
    Humanity is a group of humans.
    So a single human being cannot demonstrate humanity?
    To impose for example that humans are empathetic, feel a sense of community, family and share things is too equivocal. How can you measure all of these? How can you say this is universal when cultures are so diverse?
    I take the point, but surely something like humanity is equivocal by definition. It depends on the individual and their interaction with the wider world.
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    Teh_GerbilTeh_Gerbil Posts: 13,332 Born on Earth, Raised by The Mix
    Knee High Stripy Socks wrote:
    But there has to be something to think the thoughts, they can't exist on their own, hence 'I am'.

    You say they cannot exist on their own. This is not true, they quite well could. You are claiming "I" of an unkown quantity. They may only be one being in existence, having al the thoughts that exist at once. It is not "I", as it is not exclusivley "you". Indeed, there doesn't even need to be a being.

    Who are you to claim thoughts cannot exist independantly? Even sicentists do not know this - we don't know what thoughts are, let alone wether they even exist at all. None-one has to be thinking. It can just be the very process of thought alone.

    Think about it for a while. Is a thinker needed?

    /Leaves before he gets hurt for awful joke.
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