Are we special?

We're told this all the time when we go to school. Us, our friends, our family, we're all special and unique and different from everyone else. We're all good at things and we have our talents. Our parents told us we were special and we believed them.

Scientifically speaking, this is true. No one shares the same genes as you. No one's tongue-print or fingerprints are the same as yours. But does this make us, as humans, special? I think not. The fact is, everyone has differing fingerprints. Everyone has different talents and personalities. It's not like everyone has the same genes but you. We're called "special" and "unique". But are we really? I mean, not everyone can be special and unique. The point of being "unique" is that there is no one else like you. If everyone is unique then- you get my point.

So why did/do we believe that we are so special? Is it the movies? Until the age of 14 I thought that "maybe I could be like Spider-Man", or "maybe I'll be like Neo." All these movies are about average Joe kids becoming super heroes and "unique" people. In fact, when I was 12 I thought that given a sword or something, I could take on a room full of bad guys. We see Spider-Man take on a room full of baddies. We see Aragorn do it, too. These are all seemingly normal people who turn out "special". And we all think we can be like them. Or we are them.

What I'm getting at here is why, as humans, we think we're so special. How are we any different from horses on this world? I'm going to leave religion out of this - in fact, I would like an Atheist viewpoint on this as all other religions point out that "humans are special as they are in God's image" etc. Do you think we really have a purpose here, Atheists? Are we special? Someone once said that we're just worm meat. Are we?

Debate.

It took one post to turn it into religion. Wow.

We're more "special" then a lot of other animals because we're the only "intelligent" species on Earth really. Also, I don't recall being called special by my mom, or dad since I was 8 years old. They just tell us that to make us feel good or some shit.

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We're more "special" then a lot of other animals because we're the only "intelligent" species on Earth really.

HAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHA
WRONG!

Seriously, we're not ''intelligent''.
We're just the only ones with the luck to have thumbs and voices, which helps. Has nothing to do with intelligence, since there are species far more superiour to us in intelligence.


And also, I don't think we're special. We're ordinary.
The only time I'd call someone special is when that person is retarded.

You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everyone else, and we are all part of the same compost pile

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You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everyone else, and we are all part of the same compost pile

Ok Tyler Durden.

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HAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHA
WRONG!

Seriously, we're not ''intelligent''.
We're just the only ones with the luck to have thumbs and voices, which helps. Has nothing to do with intelligence, since there are species far more superiour to us in intelligence.

We're classified as an intelligent species. Why? Because we have the ability to make tools, imagine things, research, ect. How does having thumbs make us smarter?

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We're classified as an intelligent species. Why? Because we have the ability to make tools, imagine things, research, ect. How does having thumbs make us smarter?

I already assumed you were refferring to buildings and tools and such.

You need thumbs to do those kind of things.

Okay, but what do you think about the other things?
No intelligent species can't imagine things and research. Can they?

Well, that's also because of the thumbs.
We can write our knowledge down, which makes it possible to collect it.

Dolphins, who are smarter than us I believe, can't write. Thus it's harder to collect information and, well, use it.

I don't know why you're arguing this.
In this post:

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But seriously, being able to build stuff so well and the need for destruction, even to ourselves, seperates us from animals.

You seem to be agreeing with me.

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I don't know why you're arguing this.
In this post:

You seem to be agreeing with me.

No, you think we're special.

I say we're lucky.

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HAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHA
WRONG!

Seriously, we're not ''intelligent''.
We're just the only ones with the luck to have thumbs and voices, which helps. Has nothing to do with intelligence, since there are species far more superiour to us in intelligence.


And also, I don't think we're special. We're ordinary.
The only time I'd call someone special is when that person is retarded.

Wow you are a really stupid stupid person, who I'm afraid is acting terribly hard to try to seem smart. It's not working by the way (but keep trying!).

We are not the only species to have thumbs, there are many who do in fact, possums pandas, most birds, and of course all apes (we are not apes just so you know). Our voices are not unique either, ever heard of a parrot? It too has a voice, but does not have the intelligence to do more than mimic what it hears. Another thing, our voices isn't some unique thing that just so happens to give us the ability to understand each other. ALL ANIMALS COMMUNIQUE YOU IDIOT, EVER HEAR A ****ING DOG GO BARK BARK? YEAH THATS WHAT ITS DOING

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Well, that's also because of the thumbs.
We can write our knowledge down, which makes it possible to collect it.

Dolphins, who are smarter than us I believe, can't write. Thus it's harder to collect information and, well, use it.

Dolphins are smarter? Really? I saw on tv the other day (by the way, thats the invention in we created in which we can have moving pictures(another thing we invented) in your living room) that we can in fact make microscopic thing invisible. Now, give dolphins them thumbs and a better voice and i doubt that it can do that.
So your saying, that the only reason that dolphins are not flying around in ****ing space is because they cant write? If they we're so superior to intelligence, they would have figured some other way to withhold information.

The real debate here is -

who would win in a fight, spiderman or aragorn?

Personally, hands down, I'd say spiderman.

DEBATE.

+ Ignore gydonnoreah or whatever his ****ing name is, he seems to just go into good debates and oppose with the stupidest arguments.

well aragorn does have access to a massive army, and if he uses it he would probably win for sure.

hand to hand spiderman fo sho though