Humans aren't perfect.. well neither are animals either. All living things are bound to make mistakes at some point, no matter if someone proclaims to be perfect as such.
But as the others said, the fact that Humans have intelligence to describe ourselves and our feelings/emotions more in a meaningful deep way than the others. But one thing that bothers living beings is cannabilism.. eg as the others said.. animals eating each other, and humans eating meat, etc.. Who knows whether if the animal feels guilty after killing another to eat.
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Posted 01 February 2007 - 06:32 PM
Hi all, I never thought I would think about something like this but now I am actually replying to it. Its the uncertainity of thoughts/situations and how well we can handle them, the varied range of emotions, the ability to differentiate between whats good or bad for us(as individuals and for the whole society as well), and also our so called intelligence. We have the power to chose and the power to decide, this trait is shared by other species also but upto an extent which means they act upon their instincts rather than putting an active thought behind whatever they are doing and thats what I think makes us human.
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Posted 01 February 2007 - 09:30 PM
Lots of things make us human. Our ability to think creatively, communicate with each other, recognise our own reflections, make tools for ourselves, set morals and rules, our understanding of those morals and rules, our optential to break those rules, our social limitations, y'know all the stuff that you just plain don't do because it's not acceptable and just plain wrong ...
Lots and lots of things make us human.
Lots and lots of things make us human.
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Posted 05 February 2007 - 08:54 AM
Creative control over our activities, the potential to break a promise, hurting others feelings.. last minute decisions and happenings, uncontrollable circumstances which are caused by either fellow humans or even animals are also many other things that makes us human.
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Posted 08 December 2011 - 09:53 PM
"Human" is a species, so what makes us human is membership in an actively interbreeding population with sufficient chromosomal similarity to be able to regularly produce fertile offspring through normal intercourse. Does that somewhat narrowed definition work to eliminate similar animals? It is not clear that a Humanzee is impossible, for instance, but we can still claim our own species because we aren't actively interbreeding with chimps and a hybrid might only be possible with artificial insemination, and that might be very difficult.
"Species" is really not as precise a term as we would like to think. We diverged from the other chimps some 6-7 million years ago, but continued to be able to interbreed with them, despite developing chromosomal differences. Eventually, those differences made, or will make interbreeding 100% impossible, but we don't know that we have reached that point. Could modern technology harvest enough chimp eggs and human sperm and create the ideal test tube conditions so that after 1,000 attempts a viable fetus was created? Wouldn't we like to draw the species line long before that point? Wherever we set it is necessarily arbitrary, especially if we use words like regularly and normally and actively, which don't have precise definitions.
Another way to phrase this question is "what traits do humans have that other animals don't?" Even interpretation of symbolism is not our exclusive domain so maybe we need to say "...tend to have in greater abundance than other animals?" That doesn't really get there because premature birth of what is essentially a helpless fetus, for instance, doesn't really make us special in a way we are proud of. Hairless mammary glands in the female population...no, however pride-provoking that may be, it is not really what we want to claim. God created man to have dominion over the other animals...is that what we are trying to get to, some unique way that human's betterness is enough to justify that dominion? In the end, the question is really about a desire to create a box and put ourselves in it and all other animals outside. In fact "human" is just an imaginary box that limits our ability to see further. What makes us "human" is just pride.
"Species" is really not as precise a term as we would like to think. We diverged from the other chimps some 6-7 million years ago, but continued to be able to interbreed with them, despite developing chromosomal differences. Eventually, those differences made, or will make interbreeding 100% impossible, but we don't know that we have reached that point. Could modern technology harvest enough chimp eggs and human sperm and create the ideal test tube conditions so that after 1,000 attempts a viable fetus was created? Wouldn't we like to draw the species line long before that point? Wherever we set it is necessarily arbitrary, especially if we use words like regularly and normally and actively, which don't have precise definitions.
Another way to phrase this question is "what traits do humans have that other animals don't?" Even interpretation of symbolism is not our exclusive domain so maybe we need to say "...tend to have in greater abundance than other animals?" That doesn't really get there because premature birth of what is essentially a helpless fetus, for instance, doesn't really make us special in a way we are proud of. Hairless mammary glands in the female population...no, however pride-provoking that may be, it is not really what we want to claim. God created man to have dominion over the other animals...is that what we are trying to get to, some unique way that human's betterness is enough to justify that dominion? In the end, the question is really about a desire to create a box and put ourselves in it and all other animals outside. In fact "human" is just an imaginary box that limits our ability to see further. What makes us "human" is just pride.
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