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are humans special?

Submitted by Kendra on Sun, 10/21/2007 - 6:23pm.
although i was absent from class on friday, i looked through the previous posts and found the responses to the debate over whether humans are special or not very intriguing. Looking at the reasoning behind the "yes" and "no" group, I'm stuck in the middle. I think it is very elitist of us to say that humans are special but in saying that we are not special likens us to simpler organisms like bacteria. 

Over the course of the past few weeks, I have been wondering whether are not humans are in fact special, or different, from other organisms around us. It is so easy to agree with the points made by the "yes" group especially the points about the complexity of our language skills and aesthetic qualities but it is also good to realize that we are still vulnerable to outside elements that other organisms are. I agree with previous posts, we are special but that does not make us better than the next organism. Though Humans have found their own way of adapting above and beyond other organisms, in comparison with other those other organisms, we are possibly not invincible. 

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