What is humanity? How would you define it? Pic unrelated.

>>46898848
>A miserable collection of piles of secrets

>>46898848
Definition should exclude anyone who would do that to a dog. Poor little bastard.

>>46898848
Behold, a featherless bipedal with flat nails!

What do you mean, a person's humanity, or the species collectively known as Humanity?

A parasite that enjoys violently attacking itself as much as it like attacking the host

>>46898864
A person's humanity. Otherwise I woulda used the word mankind.

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Why, it's our connection to the Lord Soul of Manus.

Homo sapiens. If we're being really picky, Homo sapiens sapiens.

>>46898848
Depends on the setting.

>>46898897
In settings like Vampire the Masquerade?

>>46898880
In that case humanity is the ability to rise above base desires and impulses. To help the group as a whole or to just be able to plan more than a few weeks ahead of time.

>>46898928
So a person without humanity would act on impulse only?

>>46898928
Das rayciss.

>>46898941
A person without humanity is primarily motivated by base desires, not necessarily without impulse control, though I would say that someone who lacks all impulse control is little better than an animal.

>>46898947
How is it racist? I said nothing of race. Perhaps you are the racist for immediately jumping to the conclusion that I was referring to a specific race of people.

I though humanity was about acting noble and decently constantly?

>>46898883
This form looks like a vaggo.
Or is this so deep like souls look like vaginas because they are born through t?

>>46898865
ow the edge

>>46899032
psst
Niggers

>>46898848
Exactly like that pic

>>46898865
So edgy it counts as AP1.

When someone's "acting human", they're being empathic. When someone's "not acting human", they're not being empathic. That's all there is to it, really.

>>46898947
Speciesism, not racism.

>>46898848
To be unable to reproduce with nonhumans.

Just kidding. I'd say humanity is a collection of mental abilities no one thing we've found or created is capable of, like empathy, complex humor and object permanence.

If you were Skyping something that could see you but you couldn't see back, you showed it an object that went offscreen and then back on, and they asked if you have two of that thing, would you consider them being human as slightly less likely? I mean, in a world where we know being sapient and inhuman is possible.

Describe a human without humanity.

>>46899261
An elf.

>>46898848
Is that a real dog?

What's wrong with his eyes?

>>46899261
A vampire

>>46898848
The ability to develop a complex language.

>>46899261
zombie

>>46898848
A combination of things that separate us from other animals, most notably sapience.

>>46899261
A hollow.

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>>46898904
Picrelated sums up "humanity as in WoD" pretty well.

>>46899062
A lot of Dark Souls shit is very freudian in nature.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LueVmefY_Kg

>>46899261
A dead guy.

>>46899261
Jeffrey Dahmer, Carla Tucker, Donald Trump, Adolf Hitler, Hiroyuki.

>>46899261

For now the answers seem to indicate that humanity is a soul.

>>46899261
Anon.

>>46898848
Philosophically, biologically, or psychologically?
Biologically we're homo-sapiens, defined by advance tool use, an up-right posture, and a relatively remarkable intellect.
Psychologically humanity is defined mostly by it's ability to not only self-identify, but also it's ability to contemplate that self.
Philosophically it's the latter of the prior, that ability to ask ourselves what we are and wonder why we are that most philosophers would probably accredit to being the most 'human,' thing about humans.

So, if I had to take a stab at it I'd say humanity is defined by the ability to actualize both it's self and it's sense of self.

>>46899407
>ARE YOU KIDDING ME???

>>46899261
Bald monkey

>>46898861
At least when you put peanut butter on the roofs of their mouths they're being tormented by tastiness.

In MY setting, most would probably describe them as the industrious and reverant peoples of the middle lands. And the word "slutty" would probably be used.

>>46900215
For their propention to fuck everything they don't kill or eat?

>>46900227
Yeah. They aren't actually slutty, but they're the only peoples who regularly mate with others outside their culture. Historically, they did it because they had to to survive, and thousands of years later, this has turned into myths, legends and idioms and such which paint them as slutty.

>>46900352
That actually sounds fun.

>>46899261
Nigger

>>46899062
>le old guy with a cigar.jpeg
It's just an vague ghost/aura shape.

>>46900396
Animal =/= human without humanity.

>>46899261
A sapient, sentient individual with nothing even remotely close to empathy. Callous and cruel in their disregard for anyone else. Their eyes without light. Soulless.

So gingers.

>>46900693
So basically democrats?

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>>46900782
I just fuckin said gingers.

>>46900892
I don't see how it contradicts me.

>>46900951
Different anon here, but if you had said, "Don't you mean democrats?" instead, that would make more sense. By your word choice you're being the contradictory one.

>>46899261
elf-dwarf mix

>>46898848
A very smart animal that is evolved so well that it now is entierly independent from evolution and they make their own terms.

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>>46899402
I can't believe I watched that entire video

>>46898858
not
>a collection of miserable piles of secrets
anon are you even trying
come on now

>>46899402
Thid video gets so much wrong. The shape of humanity sprites in Dark Souls 1 is meant to resemble the silhouette of a person. That enemy in Dark Souls 2 has a distended gut resulting from starvation and sickness, not a pregnant belly. At least it got the part about the "birth" imagery in the scene with the first flame in the opening cutscene of DS1, but that one was quite clearly intentional. There is definitely sexual imagery in the Souls games, but that video makes a lot of false assumptions.

I'd say the most heavily Freudian souls game would actually be Bloodborne, by far.

>>46899261
A newborn child.

>>46899261
4chan.

>>46904110
a /pol/ack

>>46899261
OP

>>46899261
(You)

>>46899594
>Tfw you're a fucking white male

>>46906815
What's wrong with being a white male?

>>46907444
>pause
ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?!?!

>>46899331
every extraterrestial species that developed complex language could be considered human in this case

>>46907444
White men were the first (only?) demographic to end slavery and then went on to invent the best technology and cure most disease. This makes every other race (and women) shit themselves in rage because it makes them all look useless.

>>46898848
The only relevant definition is the genetic one.

>>46907663
Ha, that's why.