(May 1, 2018 at 7:29 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: To say one human is more human than another implies humanness is a set of independently conceived specifications and actual humans are but products produced to fulfill the specification. I would think humanness is descriptive, not proscriptive.

I think humanness is emotion. Wouldn't you agree?

(May 1, 2018 at 7:32 pm)Kit Wrote:

(May 1, 2018 at 7:29 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: To say one human is more human than another implies humanness is a set of independently conceived specifications and actual humans are but products produced to fulfill the specification.  I would think humanness is descriptive, not proscriptive.

I think humanness is emotion.  Wouldn't you agree?

No.  It is a description.   You feeling of humanness is part of being humanness.   Other people’s way of life that you may regard as inhuman is just as much a part of humanness.

The only things that are inhuman are things that are not done by any human ever, or never an attribute of any human ever.   Being trump, for example, is not a thing ever done or an attribute ever possessed by humans.

(May 1, 2018 at 7:38 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: No. It is a description. You feeling of humanness is part of being humanness. Other people’s way of life that you may regard as inhuman is just as much a part of humanness.

The only things that are inhuman are things that are nicer done by any human or never an attribute of any human. Being trump, for example.

Good thing I know word salad from reason.

(May 1, 2018 at 7:41 pm)Kit Wrote:

(May 1, 2018 at 7:38 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: No.  It is a description.   You feeling of humanness is part of being humanness.   Other people’s way of life that you may regard as inhuman is just as much a part of humanness.

The only things that are inhuman are things that are nicer done by any human or never an attribute of any human.   Being trump, for example.

Good thing I know word salad from reason.

You need more word fiber.

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I get cranky when I see a bunch of people in a waiting room or bus stop with their eyes glued to screens, completely ignorant of their surroundings and I want to slap their phones from their hands.
Don't get me started on those who do it while walking down the street.
Are they less human? No.
These stupid creatures are too human.

(May 1, 2018 at 7:50 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: You need more word fiber.

Like this?

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(May 1, 2018 at 7:59 pm)Little lunch Wrote: I get cranky when I see a bunch of people in a waiting room or bus stop with their eyes glued to screens, completely ignorant of their surroundings and I want to slap their phones from their hands.
Don't get me started on those who do it while walking down the street.
Are they less human? No.
These stupid creatures are too human.

Don't get me started.

I saw very cute guy. I'm already too introverted to approach. I was hoping he would approach me.

Technology making us less human? Preposterous!











































You will be assimilated.





Resistance is futile.

(May 1, 2018 at 7:59 pm)Little lunch Wrote: I get cranky when I see a bunch of people in a waiting room or bus stop with their eyes glued to screens, completely ignorant of their surroundings and I want to slap their phones from their hands.
Don't get me started on those who do it while walking down the street.
Are they less human? No.
These stupid creatures are too human.

And the ones who prop their tablet on the steering wheel while driving...

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(May 1, 2018 at 8:51 pm)The Gentleman Bastard Wrote:

Is that Tim Conway? 

Did you have to Google "Tim Conway"?

On the contrary... technology is a big part of what makes us human.

If it were not for technology we would have all been eaten by Smilodons.

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(May 1, 2018 at 7:29 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: To say one human is more human than another implies humanness is a set of independently conceived specifications and actual humans are but products produced to fulfill the specification.  I would think humanness is descriptive, not proscriptive.

You're right of course. All humans are equally human simply because they're humans. We'd have to evolve into an entire new species to stop being human.

And not only that... saying one human is more human than another human is a tactic that has been used by racist assholes. So I'd stay away from that approach, Kit.

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(May 1, 2018 at 7:31 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: Based on the numbers of recent threads you've started, you appear to be the biggest threat.

The only reason I don't do it myself is because I think I'd actually get banned for it lol.