As philosophers, historians, and wise old men and women would have us know, people are born with certain things about them that make them "human". Yes, of course, we all have the genetic build that is standard for us to biologically be human and not bird or bug. What I mean when I say they "would have us know" is that people are born with natural humanities and inhumanities, natural driving causes, wills and inherent desires. Some are born strong in life with resilient thick skin, while others may have the skeletal structure of a stick man with softer skin. Either way as is said, regardless of how strong or weak, short or tall, perfect or broken, we are all to be considered equal. Why? Because it is within us to be accepted, we were designed to form social cultures and live with one another, acceptance is everything to us because being comfortable with one another is everything.
Now if a woman is born with the natural desire for money then you could say she was born into this world with a deep will to be free from restraint. If a man comes into this world blindly seeking an understandable love and finds himself struggling through his life in pursuit of the opposite sex, he might see that it isn't women that have the capacity to understand or love him the way he feels comfortable. You could say that the man without prejudice seeks a human being that is capable of loving him. Both of these individuals are equal and justified as they both pursue their natural humanities, the thing inside of them which they were born with.
I don't claim to be a philosopher or a historian, I am also very young and not so wise. Having said that I would have you know that I mostly disagree with the above ideas. Human beings are born into this world only slightly different from the animals around them. Chimps, for example, are the closest as it gets in genetics, they are between 95% to 98.5% genetically built like humans. Why then do they swing from trees instead of drive cars, why is it that they don't talk in a common language or develop as people do? It is because chimps cannot learn like the human being, because they are selfish and desire only their own pleasure. What makes men and women human is the desire for information but not for selfish reasons, people wish to share knowledge and grow together.
As infants we use all we have to communicate with the adults, we express emotion by crying, laughing, or we utilize our natural given facial gestures to show them how we feel about things. We keep our eyes wide open to absorb the world around us and as we grow older we begin forming sounds that will eventually be words, these shapeless sounds our the greatest efforts of communication. The ability to thoroughly communicate an idea, feeling, or need is single to humans in its current level of complexity. It is because we seek information that we are human, it is why there are cars on the streets, planes in the sky, and rockets taking us into space.
The only thing we are really born with is the impulse to know "why". I don't insult our species by thinking or saying that everyone is born with a different drive like a randomized crayon box, open it up and who knows what you'll find, no. We are no accident, God made both man and woman so that they could someday come to understand him. Creating intelligent life is an amazing thing, God did a lot of that, the stars are full of it. The real part missing is natural understanding, because that can't be created.
Like God and everyone else I seek to be understood. As a man I only seek to know “why”. “Why what?” you may ask, to that I say "Why anything, because I seek to understand that of both God and man ,after all everything is of one or the other".
-Theodore W. Hazen
Now if a woman is born with the natural desire for money then you could say she was born into this world with a deep will to be free from restraint. If a man comes into this world blindly seeking an understandable love and finds himself struggling through his life in pursuit of the opposite sex, he might see that it isn't women that have the capacity to understand or love him the way he feels comfortable. You could say that the man without prejudice seeks a human being that is capable of loving him. Both of these individuals are equal and justified as they both pursue their natural humanities, the thing inside of them which they were born with.
I don't claim to be a philosopher or a historian, I am also very young and not so wise. Having said that I would have you know that I mostly disagree with the above ideas. Human beings are born into this world only slightly different from the animals around them. Chimps, for example, are the closest as it gets in genetics, they are between 95% to 98.5% genetically built like humans. Why then do they swing from trees instead of drive cars, why is it that they don't talk in a common language or develop as people do? It is because chimps cannot learn like the human being, because they are selfish and desire only their own pleasure. What makes men and women human is the desire for information but not for selfish reasons, people wish to share knowledge and grow together.
As infants we use all we have to communicate with the adults, we express emotion by crying, laughing, or we utilize our natural given facial gestures to show them how we feel about things. We keep our eyes wide open to absorb the world around us and as we grow older we begin forming sounds that will eventually be words, these shapeless sounds our the greatest efforts of communication. The ability to thoroughly communicate an idea, feeling, or need is single to humans in its current level of complexity. It is because we seek information that we are human, it is why there are cars on the streets, planes in the sky, and rockets taking us into space.
The only thing we are really born with is the impulse to know "why". I don't insult our species by thinking or saying that everyone is born with a different drive like a randomized crayon box, open it up and who knows what you'll find, no. We are no accident, God made both man and woman so that they could someday come to understand him. Creating intelligent life is an amazing thing, God did a lot of that, the stars are full of it. The real part missing is natural understanding, because that can't be created.
Like God and everyone else I seek to be understood. As a man I only seek to know “why”. “Why what?” you may ask, to that I say "Why anything, because I seek to understand that of both God and man ,after all everything is of one or the other".
-Theodore W. Hazen