Our creativity. Art, music, sculpture, literature, architecture. The one true positive of the species.

Language.

That with all the stupidity it has shown over the centuries, that it still is around.

@flutherother That too, though other animals share language too.

Our ability to destroy the very environment that we need to sustain us.

Learning. It’s not unique to humans, and it’s so necessary to so much life out there it might seem rather ordinary, but it’s kind of amazing to think about, I think—that we can just work at something and get better at it; that we can just work at something and everything from our conceptual understanding to our epigenetics alters to meet the challenge.

Haha, you might get a few here disputing anything remarkable at all, humanity haters & all that

That some “bodies” will last 100+ years on this earth.
My grandmother is over 100 and has never been
to a hospital in her life.

@ucme GOOD! Haha I do enjoy a good cynic, they amuse me

“Humanity i love you because you
are perpetually putting the secret of
life in your pants and forgetting
it’s there and sitting down

on it…”

—e.e. cummings
Humanity I Love You

Their shortsightedness.

Our ability to reason.

Their unwarranted self importance.

Our compassion for species that would otherwise be our predators.

On the flip side, the willingness of some to kill other species, even those who pose no threat, for sport, and nothing more.

…and there you go :D

Our capacity for destruction. It is truly limitless.

That they can choose to be any class.

What do you mean @RedDeerGuy1?

@Dutchess_III Is a quip about Dungeons and Dragons. Humans have the freedom to choose any career/class. Humans have the freedom to choose their fate. Other races are limited in variety of choices.

What “other races”?

angels and demons, dwarfs, elves, gnomes, fairies, half-orcs, dragons, animals ect.

Oh.

Our celebrity obsession.
We pay large amounts of money to specific humans and treat them as if they’re special just because they’re pretty, athletic, can sing or are good at acting like a real person with an interesting life.
In reality actors, athletes, singers, models, reality stars etc. are not really worthy of the attention or money they get in my opinion.
They are just human beings like the rest of us, nothing more.
Food goes in the top, shit comes out the bottom.

I have often thought of that, too @Pineapplebush. It really is odd…but it’s also our pack nature. We want someone to lead, someone to look up to, even if they don’t deserve it.

The Coming Dark Age

This is a free ebook that lays out the history of every cultural collapse in history. The line that sticks in my soul is “You would think they would learn from their mistakes, but they don’t. After each dark age they rebuild, making all the same stupid mistakes all over again.”

That it’s a miracle we’re not extinct.