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humanity?
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what is it?
i feel we have lost sight of what we are.
what makes you a human?
i feel we have lost sight of what we are.
what makes you a human?
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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?
i'm getting fucked off with this place.
i did ... :banghead:
Doesn't thate exclude a lot of people?
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
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?
You can only claim "I think therefore there are thoughts."
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.