Let Us Unite in Our Humanity

[BenJepheneT]

Perhaps, but as a human, you have opinions. The right to those opinions may have been freely given to you as a gift but the expression of your opinions does in fact help to make you human.

My pet cat is human because it expressed its displeasure of bathing by taking a fat steaming shit on the bathroom floor while being cleaned.

 

[Representing_Tromba]

My pet cat is human because it expressed its displeasure of bathing by taking a fat steaming shit on the bathroom floor while being cleaned.

Cat's are the closest animals can come to embodying human contempt.

 

[Viator]

I have a few thoughts on this.

First, it seems to me that if we are able to love, then we are able to know ourselves. I will say more about that in a moment.

Before I do, let me say that what we normally refer to as the love function appears to be so fundamentally human that it is hard to imagine what it would be like to be without it.

It seems that we are compelled to love others, but I am not sure that we would have that same compulsion to love if it was not for this function.

If someone were to deprive us of the ability to love, it would certainly leave us with a hard time making any sense of our existence.

I don't think it is love that makes us human. After all, there are examples of what we call love in animals, and there are certainly examples of humans incapable of love. Rather, I find what makes us human is our ability to tell stories, and think in abstract ways. These things have more defined us as "human" beings than any emotion. You might call someone incapable of emotional connection inhuman, but the reality is they are just a small part of the human condition you wish did not exist, likely because of fear.

 

[TheEldritchGod]

Okay.

You unite YOUR humanity, and I will unite MY humanity and we will have our humanities FIGHT TO THE DEATH.
We will see who's humanity is STRONGER!

 

[RepresentingCaution]

As we have seen, love is only real insofar as we choose it and not otherwise. It is only real to the extent that it supports our freedom. And we could say that it is the self that chooses that which it loves, that is, the fundamental human choice we call love. But what does it mean to choose the self?

Choosing whether to parent or not is perhaps the biggest choice a human makes. In choosing to parent, we pass on bits of ourselves to our offspring. Choosing not to parent is also a way to choose the self and perhaps even more noble in many circumstances.