“What makes us human is not our ability to feel pain but rather our capacity for love, compassion and empathy.”


Sounds like Hume. Or Dumbledore… Whose quote?


Animals can feel compassion and empathy. What is love? Does it require self-awareness?


Agree 💯 However, emphatic people suffer more from disappointments because their hearts are very vulnerable.


I get colder the more medicated when not I'd die for people


So people with bilateral triphalangeal thumbs aren't human?

https://image.nostr.build/9da3cf59c17e94123ccf52fe51f7f03dcb41815ede48b4d40c91df40953177b0.jpg


I think it's the power to grow from pain. To rise from the ashes...


Is someone who is dreaming unconscious? Regular dreaming, not lucid dreaming. Serious question.


Not AI.

https://www.indianpediatrics.net/dec2005/dec-1246-1247.HTM


What is love?
 https://media.tenor.com/ZHk4_4sIA4AAAAAM/what-is-love.gif


And what do you call it when six plus three (phone and alarm clock separately) can't wake you the heck up whilst your neighbours are well and truely up?

Because I don't think I "sleep"...


if their gametes can combine with humans they are human.


Only humans piss in their pants 😂


#gifsthathavesound


you have never handled puppies, kittens, rabbits or lambs then i take it.

unless you mean the pants part and not the pissing part.


Try telling that to the bondage people.....


What makes us human is our ability to manipulate symbols, to think.

It is both a curse & blessing, the knowledge of good & evil.

Heaven & hell both exist in this realm. The line between good & evil exists in the heart in the heart of every man.

Bill Hicks put it best - it's just a ride.

https://v.nostr.build/YvRP.mp4


Thought the same, and I guess some animals can also feel some love for their children