"To be human, it seems to say, is to knowingly hurt other sentient beings for your own gain."
I don't want to use the word 'controversial', but these type of topic often brings heated debate.
On what it means to be human, what IS human.
You can make a check list, and list all of the quality a human can have.
Eye sight, hearing, sense of smell, ability to taste, and so on.
But when you reduce it one by one...
If a living being unable to see, does that still make it human?
Well. Yes, there are blind men, blind women.
So are deaf men, deaf women.
A person without senses, we'd still consider them human, even though they lack what a norma