Thread: Seriousness What is it that makes us human?
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Old 04-26-2009, 03:36 PM   #59
Steven Lyle Jordan
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Originally Posted by taosaur View Post
Nihilist much? Super Holy Children and Virulent Cancer are not the only options.
Actually, the answers given have indicated that we are neither SuperHoly Children nor Virulent Cancer. So we must be something else.

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Is there tangible evidence (i.e., that morals and "humanity" exist without humans)? Lacking any, these must be human constructs. In which case I'll stick with the characterization of Virulent Cancer. I'm not particularly happy about being an organism of that cancer but it seems an apt description.
Various of the traits we describe as "morals" and "humanity" towards others have been documented in primates, ceteceans, canines, and the family/group behavior of many species.
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