What classifies us as human? - Blog on assignment.

My assignment essay is an ethics request of 5 things that classifies us as human.

One aspect of us being human is taking fellow peoples feelings into consideration before we act. For example, Snorting off a rude comment at a fast food employee belittles them, making them feel un appreciated, and could potentially become hostile. By not taking the fast food worker's feelings into consideration, you can now enjoy you loogie burger and urinade in solitude. Taking in account of how others' will react to your decisions is part of humanity. Lives are much more tolerable when people wave hello to the guy in the cross walk instead of shooting him the finger. A bad mood is like a virus, when someone gets pissy, it is likely they will do something inconsiderate and piss of another person, which does it to another, and so on. The cycle is rarely broken. When I see someone running to a person's aid, when not asked, I feel a part of humanity is restored. Do to people as you would have them do to you. If you are not to apply this logic, it can be said that you are not human. It would be easy to consider a murderer non-human, because they did not care of their victems' feelings of wanting to live...

Fear is also an aspect of our humanity, without it we know no limits, and thinking of others is unlikely. Every creature feels fear-- So supposedly, this aspect just is a sign of being a living being.

To enjoy works of art is a wonderful human aspect. Art can make us feel a number of emotions, by showing the beauty, ugliness, or the unusual of the world around us. To be overwhelmed by a symphony, is such a thing only a human can comprehend. A line from a movie comes to mind with this; I, Robot. Spooner says, "Can a machine turn a canvas into a masterpiece? Can a machine write a symphony?" Sonny replies, "Can you?"- Not every human is capable of creating a work of art, but we are able to enjoy it.

Our ID (inner desires) can be a way to classify us as human. This is what we want, more than anything else in the world. Total bliss to us. This can be related to us as caveman days, where we did what we wanted when we wanted to do it. If we saw a piece of meat we wanted, we could club the guy eating it, and take it for ourselves. Our ID is our primal instincts, which is how most animals already act upon anyway. What makes us human with our ID, is our control over the ID. With out that control, We could do whatever we wanted and be completely primal again.

Freewill- We can do anything we want, but we think of the consequences before hand. Most humans would classify throwing rocks at a lion pride to be a very bad idea. But throwing rocks at a tree is better. The tree wont do anything but stand there, but the lions will maul you. We CAN do what we want, but our ability to control ourselves and make logical and emotional decisions of consequences is what makes this a human trait.

Humans tend to reason emotionally and logically. Thinking with your mind, and with your emotions. An example of to explain this would be: You have two candidates to fill one job. One guy has lots of experience, and is a great model employee, and the other has a little experience, and has a bad habit of being late. Logic says to go with the Experienced model employee, but emotional reasoning says to go with the less experienced late guy because he is your nephew's friend... We are the only species that does this. Animals go on instinct,