What makes us different?

Answer 1

From...?

Each other?

The plants and the trees?

Answer 2

Essentially, we are not different from each other. Strip everyone of their epiderm (or skin) and we'd look the same except for minor details caused by environmental factors and genitalia. Blood is red, bone is white and that's the end of it. However, with skin, or clothes that define us in different ways, we try to become individuals, though we cannot escape from the essential building matter that makes us who we are. When we see someone who deviates from the norm, or our own interpritation of the norm, we generally feel fear and sickness because we are subconsciously both jealous and horrified by true difference. The problem that humanity has always found, is that we are limited and when compare to other species, we are physically weak and feeble (this is why so much pleasure is found by "innocent" children who pull the legs off of spiders) and only our interlect seperates us from the animal kingdom. We therefore regard any difference in humanity to be both better and worse than our own shells.

Darwin surmised in his Origin Of Species that we differ from the beasts in our ability to be independently creative of our needs, though it has become obvious to me over the last few years that humans care for little else than their needs which they tend to class as wants. If you are asking about our difference to the animal world, then you will find that while the animals were inteligent enough to remain dumb, we were stupid enough to seek brains. Afterall, who is destroying the planet?

And if your original dillema was a question on what makes men and women different, then I think you should go back to school.

Answer 3

It's the way we are all raised, the schools we go to, the people we interact w/, and the personal state of mind you have. I'm 16 but i hold myself as if i'm 20 or at least i try. The main thing of is the experiences you have in life, if you've been spoiled and rich all of your life...those are kinda crude/mean people (some), or if you know what its like to be poor, then rich, homeless, hungry, and then back to ok....then you've experienced more.
The point is, it's what happens in your life that makes you, you. No one can change you, but an event of tradgety, or happiness can.

Answer 4

What mostly makes us different can be best illustrated by the opposite of what makes us the same.

Perception, experiences, unique oneness.

Uniqueness is found from within.

Our ability to use our mind.
We all have it.
The sixth sense.

What is essential is invisible to the eye.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
It is this ability, to use our mind an our other senses, that makes us "different."

It's all in perception.

Ask yourself what makes us the same and then your answer to your question is the exact opposite of that.

Answer 5

DNA< the way we were brought up, circumstances, good luck, bad luck, the age we live in.. nearly everything makes us different from others.
Most of us have the core similarities though, u know, one heart, 2 kidneys, 2 arms and 2 legs.
But personlaity is based on environment, DNA and experience

interesting question!

Answer 6

Well ,lets start with everyone is unique.Another thing we all think differently and have different opinions on everything and everyone.We all have different religions,cultures,languages(any serbians out there?)hobbies,skills,talents,preferences etc.etc.So what Im trying to say is everyone is independent.

Answer 7

Differ ant from other life forms?? Our knowledge of the fact that we are going to someday die.

Answer 8

Our personality and our point of viewing things. Even twins are different!

Answer 9

Men/Women? Just genitals and hormones. We're more alike than different.

Answer 10

THE ONLY THING THAT DIFFERENTIATES HUMANS IS THEIR BELIEFS. SOME PEOPLE BELIEVE IN GOD OR GODS AND SOME DON'T. HAVE YOU EVER SEEN A WAR STARTED OVER WHO DIDN'T BELIEVE IN GOD? OR ARE MOST WARS FOUGHT OVER WHO'S RELIGION IS RIGHT ? IF YOU BELIEVE IN A GOD SOME ONE ELSE WILL SAY YOUR WRONG BECAUSE THEIR GOD IS GREATER AND IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE IN A GOD YOU WRONG BECAUSE ALL THE BELIEVERS OF DIFFERENT RELIGIONS SAY THAT THEIR IS A GOD. WHO'S RIGHT ? I THINK I'LL TAKE MY CHANCES
WITH NO GOD AT LEAST I CAN RELATE TO DIFFERENT PEOPLE OF ALL TYPES.

Answer 11

from one another?
our personality, our choices, our mindset, our style.
what we choose is just that, a choice. and thats what makes us different from one another.
if we didnt have a little sensor in our brain that kept saying, choose, choose! we would all be drones. exactly the same.