What is humanity? As a noun, of course, it means the aggregate of
people now (or ever) on the Earth. I intended the softer, more
amorphous adjectival sense of it. The term 'humane' is generally
intended to define a response or attitude which takes into consideration
fellow-feeling, compassion, empathy, justice and other values which we
ascribe to ourselves alone. (Surely we intend the term to exclude the
animal world -- although, just as surely, animals are sometimes more
'humane' than we humans.)
U.
Eric Yost wrote:
>>I'm revolted (and deeply saddened) by the inhumaity of this...echoing Condoleeza Rice's "birth pangs of a New Middle East." How dare she (and you) make so little of the lives of the 'others.'
What do you think humanity is?
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