There is no safe standard to tell man from animals.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- There is no reliable metric to definitively separate humans from animals.
- In plain terms
- We cannot find a safe way to distinguish humans from animals.
- What can you take from it?
- Recognize the blurred line between human and animal nature.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What makes us uniquely human?
- Is the difference real or imagined?
Another view
Modern science often uses DNA to distinguish humans from other species.
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