Human

Being human means a wide variety of things.

Some people (not I) believe that in being human, we have some sort of God-given superiority over all other creatures on Earth. Some people believe that this God-given right makes it okay for us to abuse the other creatures of the world. Some people believe it gives us the right to destroy the homes of the other creatures for our own benefit.

Others know better than that.

I believe that being human does not mean superiority even though being human is much different than being any other creature in this world. We, unlike other creatures, have significantly more ways to communicate than other creatures—some of which ways leave many out—: we have a wide variety of spoken languages and no one knows them all, we have sign language, we have the written word, we have our smiles and our tears, we have our actions, too.

Humans, also unlike other creatures, have not only the id, but also the ego and the superego (if you are oblivious to what the id ego and superego are, the id is animalistic behavior, the superego is more in relation with faith, and the ego is the normal learned behaviors that are not influenced by faith). Most creatures simply have the id while we have the ego and superego to keep us from senselessly killing other creatures for our own benefit.

Oh wait.

We still do that.

Oh well.