Poll: Are you Human?

[Devon Dent]

I said yes, but only for the reason that the question was misasked. The question should have been "Are you a person" Because what is being asked in the yes or no statements of the asker, is nothing about being a human being, and only involves if you do or don't have ethics, a conscious, or anything like that. Which became obvious to me at this point.

What makes you unique and worthy of the life that was given to you and had yet to be taken away?

Why does a 'human' have to be unique or worthy? As humans we do not ask to be born, but we are and for the most part we just roll with it. More so, who defines 'worthy' that question pissed me of a tad I think, not as a person, but as a devout atheist. Because the first thing I thought about was the asker was defining 'god' as the person who makes you worthy, because if not 'it' then who, the asker, a hobo? But then I stopped to think, what if the asker was asked what makes him worthy to be a human, should he/she think so at all. If the choice was left up to the religious 'god' that some people try very hard to convince me exists, but I am either not deranged, or pious, enough to believe that at all. So I ask you this and this only

Are you a human? The answer: Yes you are, no question to debate at all, the real issue here is, are you a person?

Looking at this tomorrow, I think that I will find my point masked, because it is very late for me here, and I do hope that anyone who reads it will see my point for me.

 

[KindOfnElf]

No, because there is no answer whatsoever about what human is, or what human is not. I don't like following criteria made by people just to frame things, cause doing that leads to prejudices you can't control. My being is always open for any interpretation and I don't find it offensive when this is subjected to variations.

 

[tharglet]

I really don't get this desire to be so different from other life. So what if most of your life turns out to be remarkably similar to say... a sheep? What happens if other creatures do aspire to things? Why are you less of a... thing... if some other creature can do it too?

As for me, it really does depend on what value of "human" you're gonna ascribe to. I'm fairly normal most of the time, but I do odd things from time to time, not always deliberately so, mainly due to the fact I have a mental abnormality ¬¬. (Yes, I've been professionally diagnosed lol)

If you're ascribing to "Pirate Kitty"'s notion of to be human is to be moralistic... well maybe not so much. I tend to be moralistic most of the time, but I have a habit of rengineering the odd situation in a less than nice way from time to time.

 

[Dana22]

I am Human because I belong to Homo Sapiens species in the Homo genus of bipedal primates in Hominidae, the
great ape family.

Thanks wiki for the proper taxonomy !

 

[MysteryMaid]

I do believe I am human, having all the squidgey bits, emotions and thought processes of a human, however, I think I may be slowly turning into something more reminiscent of a zombie, due to the lack of sleep and unrelenting same routine that never changes and requires near to no thought to execute.

So, yes for the moment, human.
Next week/month? Your guess is as good as mine.

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

No, I'm not.
How dare you even ask such a question?
Me, a filthy human?
Ridiculous!

Yes, because I am flawed. I have thousands of flaws. I can't be inhuman if I have problems within my very being.

[sub][sub][sub]I'm actually an alien... From the planet Vegeta... Keep your eye on the birdie![/sub][/sub][/sub]

5th post FTW XD

Too bad your planet got it by a "meteor"...

Yeah... Incidentally, do you still want us to clear Earth for you?

 

[silversnake4133]

It seems to me that the person who has made this topic has a problem with those who answered "yes" or "no".

Why else would he question our motivations for answering the question like so?

No, I don't have a problem with anyone, I was just posting a critical thinking question to break up monotony. I didn't mean for it to come off as "harsh" or that I was disgusted with people.

 

[Jezzascmezza]

Yes, I'm human.
I don't really see how I'm not...

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

Yes, because I am flawed. I have thousands of flaws. I can't be inhuman if I have problems within my very being.

Lots of things are flawed, aren't they?
Humans can't created perfect things on purpose because they're flawed.
Wait a second....
If humans are flawed, doesn't that mean that nature is flawed for not being able to create something perfect?
If nature is flawed, and thus eveything is flawed, doesn't that mean that nothing is flawed?
Gaaarh! My brain!

Spoiler: My logic can do that to people sometimes. I myself am not immune.

 

[silversnake4133]

I have morals. bad things makes me feel bad. Doing good things fills me with a warm fuzzy feeling. I believe this elevates me above other animals (like lions) in the animal kingdom. ergo I am human.

That may be true, but nearly everyone can say that. Don't take this the wrong way, but have you ever wondered if these "reactions" to these good deeds or bad deeds that we experience on a daily basis were more like "generic programs" that our parents or mentors install into our brains at a young age?

Granted, we can change over time and with each new experience. However, what really perplexes me about it is that none of these reactions are solely unique. Sure you may believe that your morals and reactions are just, and they are. It just seems that for each reaction or moral you have, there are probably 500X that many duplicates consistent within millions of other people around the world.

I guess what I'm really trying to get as is this: has society made we humans more like machines because of what we collectively believe to be fact, or the morally just thing to do?

 

[Bloodastral]

I want to be a coffee machine.

 

[randomsix]

Or what? Dancers

I am on my knees looking for the answer.

What did you do? drop it?

OT: I believe you are asking whether or not I believe I am a person, as one's membership in the category of "human" is contingent only on one's genes and parents.

And I believe that I posses the criteria for personhood.

 

[Syrus Vikeruce]

Yes.

1. I hate other human beings and purposely put on a happy face to lie to other humans behind their backs.
2. Put me in a room with other people and cut all outside communication off and I WILL dream up ways to murder them.
3. If I was ever given the chance to screw someone over for an epic money scandal I'd do it without a second's thought.

A human being right down its shiny, happy core so yes I AM happy thank you.

 

[Malkavian]

snip

I answered: I don't know.

I have no proof that I am a human being. My perceptions may lie to me, and thus everything I know about my physical appearance may be wrong. My emotions or reasoning may be artificially controlled. Or it might even be that I have my entire life misunderstood what everyone means by the word "human" but it just so happens that everytime I have heard or used the word myself, my misunderstood meaning has coincidentally made sens ein the context as well.

I know nothing about my human nature, and ultimately it is for other to pass that judgement on me, for it to hold any value.

Furthermore, I don't really care that I don't and can't know. Life goes on just find, and it is only a problem not knowing if you decide it is. If I were a narwhale at a research facility being stimulated to think I'm in this so called human world and posting right now in a thread on a website, then who cares? I don't know the difference, and I'm happy anyway, unless I decide to make it a problem.

We will never know the nature of our existence. There will always be room for doubt, and as long as there is doubt, there is no true knowledge. And existential questions needs true knowledge, otherwise it's pointless.

The trick is not to care. To be a sceptic and be fine with never knowing the answer.

Or what? Dancers

I do believe this answer wins the thread. I lol'd.

 

[Meestor Pickle]

I am a human because:

I think I am better than everyone else and more important.

 

[Aerodyamic]

I'm nothing more than a naked ape; now, if you'll excuse me...

OOOOOKKOOOOOKOOOKOOOKKOOOOOK!

*scrambling off*

 

[Jedoro]

Well, Reavers ain't human, and they go around murdering, skinning, and raping people (not particularly in that order). I don't do any of those, so I'm gonna go ahead and say I'm human.

 

[Stephanos132]

Well, I don't know of any other creatures that post random philosophies on the internet, so I'm going to roll with human.

 

[mightybozz]

I'm human because I'm genetically human, born of human parents, homo sapiens.

If you want to get somewhere philosophical with this, I'd suggest asking what makes us a person, distinct from those around us etc.

 

[Chrono212]

...I don't know D:

But does that make me a bad person?