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Lunitik
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I sincerely hope you're not nitpicking here. I was just speaking my mind about what I regarded as important.
Why is this your hope?
It isn't a question of what a human "truly is" because you're assuming that there is a "truth" to be known about humans. Different people have a different answer to that. It is much better to trust your instincts and emotions. What stops us from hurting each other is love and respect. This is what it means to be "human" -- to love and respect others. A person who doesn't is a sociopath or psychopath.
Actually, what you list are what makes us animals. Many creatures are perfectly non-violent within their own species, quite caring and affectionate among their communities - this is not unique at all.
What makes us human is our weakness and vulnerability, our need for love and compassion and the respect that we have for other's sense of vulnerability and their need for love and compassion. It is knowing how to love yourself and by doing so, to love others.
I actually like this paragraph, although I still see faults.
That's the problem. A lot of people who think they have found the truth are sociopaths. They either forgot what it meant to be human or never knew.
So, based on your views of them, you do not wish to discover any truth for yourself?
Well, I hope we don't become sociopaths in the process of finding "truth."The truth just isn't worth finding if you lose your humanity in the process.
Of course, those with chemical issues in their brains should seek and be treated for it, but instead we would prefer to throw them in jails and forget about them.
What if I told you humanity was an illusion? It is a process of segregation which we call education.
I prefer to discover "limited truths" that have a narrower context, like reading about the history of a place, country or group and educating myself -- slowly accumulating knowledge but not thinking "this is all there is." There is always more to know. You can never know enough.
Then you will always remain limited.