DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE

I clicked the link that said "how we humanize each other". For some reason it was the link that interested me the most. The article quotes Hannah Arendt saying that humans don't determine whether something is humane or not. " But only when it becomes the object of discourse". She also said "We humanize what is going on in the world and in ourselves only by speaking of it". I think that means that the only way it would be considered as something humanized is if it's talked about. According to Arendt it also shows us how to be human. We create the world.

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