Humans hold Consciousness which is far advanced from animals.
Including the mentally retarded?
Humans have advanced language
There are Amazonian tribes with vocabularies under 100 words. A gorilla called Koko was able to use a wide range of sign language, and even combine existing signs to create new words; e.g. 'water' and 'fruit' for a watermelon.
Technology; Animals cannot invent technology.
Define technology? Earliest humans were using sticks and rocks. Apes use sticks and rocks. Are you saying that people with higher levels of technology are more human in some way?
Humans can read and write at levels its impossible for animals to even do.
Mentally retarded people can't. Does that exclude them from being 'human'?
Humans can build and construct things that no animal ever has or ever will be able to do; --WHY, because our Consciousness is totally different and far superior to animals, we are not continious with the idiot heirarchacy of speechless apes.
So essentially, because we are more intelligent, we are human. But if we are judging by intelligence, that would exclude the mentally retarded.
Humans can create and build on their creations, animals can do no such thing at our levels.
US scientists can also outmatch Amazonian tribes at 'creating' and 'building' at an incredible disparity. Again, does that make Amazonian tribes inferior?
Humans can create, design and build vechicles, then drive them, it is IMPOSSIBLE for an animal to do that. And Idiotic to suggest that they could.
Ah. So we weren't human until the bicycle was invented?
Humans have religion, NO animal has a religion.
I don't have a religion. Does that make me not human?
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See, Mickiel, here's your problem.
You are asked where the boundary lies between animals and humans.
You respond by giving a list of things that animals can't do.
But there are also humans who can't do these things, which you still classify as human.
I assume your comeback will be 'But most humans can'
Then we're back to square one.
How do you define humans? You can't say 'the majority of X are Y' until you first define X. And you can't define X by saying the majority can do Y, because X remains undefined.