It is Friday the 13th. Lovely day, it turns out. The 13th really has too much bad press. See? If you show it lots of love and concern, Friday the 13th will not come and bite you in the back. Do unto others and whatnot...
I was meditating on the importance of humanity, and I figure that humanity is an artificial construct that is seriously over emphasized. For one, nobody can really define what humanity is. Is it genetics? Conduct? Thought patterns? Sure, everyone's got a subjective opinion of humanity, which is quite invariably linked to the cultural beliefs that they hold (and probably take to be natural and globally generalizable).
So the question really is whether humanity as a concept is important. While it arguably encompasses concepts like compassion, kindness and other things deemed to be "good", it will be quite sufficient to be a "good" creature, regardless whether one is truly human. Just how important is humanity then?
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