Stop saying HUMANS! Why do people say 'humans'?

Question

Is there new school of thought that needs better clarification for our species? Who says "humans" in everyday conversation? Are there that many cyborgs and aliens that I don't know about, or are people just talking to their dogs too much?

Answer 1

your right,we don,t need to go around calling people humans,everybody already knows we are human....i don,t hear a lot of that where I live...I live in Texas....I have heard it said but only rarely....any person is a human,if not we would be animals right? anyway if you hear that word used a lot then whoever is saying it is wrong....I do thank you for calling it to my attention,because I am going to be looking for people that say that,maybe I just havent noticed.....Thank you

Answer 2

Essentially we are not humans at all...The closest definition would be a Consciousness..which makes human possible...That is who all of us are...Beliefs make us man and woman , good and bad, human/inhuman and that "inhuman' part raise a question ..Which inhuman are we? Polluted consciousnesss makes human in which we are sometimes being inhuman in negative sense...And purity of Consciousness makes individuals approaching Sainthood...Both vectors is already INHUMAN...Negative and positive. And that which we call human is right in between, puzzled and confused, learning from both, Good and Evil, and making their choices, which way to go...After all we are not positive or negative where one cannot exist without another , we are That Consciousness which embraced both. What makes consciousnes impure it is how and what we thinking and concluding eventually constructing Belief, any belief permanent source of mentioned pollution...Notice we are really not clear what actually positive is but we concluding negativity quite confidently...we think and believe that it is so. Nope, not necessarily to be so...Actually Being a human is highly honorable level of achievement, and many of us is far from it. We rather being anything else...rich, pure, bad good, man , woman, our careers, our names and titles, smart, stupid...Sure it bother you, for there is not too many real Humans around.to make clear distinction...

Answer 3

Why? I'm a human. My cat thinks she is human. But you and I both know she isn't human. I am the only human in this house.I assume you are a human. Guess we're all humans!! Except for those who aren't. Human I mean! Hope this clarifies everything. If not, I'm only human. Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!

Answer 4

I say human - when I'm differentiating from my soul. I'm here on earth as a human right now. Before I got here - and after I leave - who knows? So I talk about my human form and that fact that I'm a human.

That bothers you?

Oh - and I do like to talk to dogs.

Answer 5

Political correctness has made some people skittish of using "man" as a generic term for humanity. At times, one is afraid to utilize "human" because it has "man" in it. Maybe we should just stick to Latin and use homo sapiens.

Answer 6

um ok im lost with this human ordeal but yes i do talk to my doggy-woggies so does that mean i am using the word human every day or something?.....um hmm i guess i missed something!!

Answer 7

Is it Kang or Kodos who asked this question?
BTW, your last line should be "... about, or are humans just talking to their canines too much?" :-)

Peace

Answer 8

Human isn't all that uncommon in our use of language.
Hey, I am only human!

Answer 9

I've never known anyone to be so annoyed by calling something by what it is... what's the problem?

Answer 10

I hate when people call me a carbon unit..