Humanity

In general, words that are used to compare things to humans hold no ground with me. Take, for example, the term "Inhumane." By definition, it means when someone is cruel or heartless that goes against human nature. A person might describe leaving a child without food "inhumane."

However, I have 2 basic arguments with this
1) If it was against human nature, why do so many violate it?
2) When given any amount of thought there is no animal that would abandon its child. Yes, some reptiles and fish would lay eggs and leave their young to live by themselves, but they are a species as a whole. Turtles don't leave out their young out of cruelty, they do it because its hardwired into the turtle. Its what makes the "turtle" what it is.

Certain mammals do indeed abandon their young, but not out of apathy or cruelty.
Rather, it is usually attributed to lack of resources or competition between siblings. Given the chance, if there was no competition between siblings, then they wouldn't shun their young.

Some might even make the argument that certain species eat their young, but this is out of survival. No animal would hunt another for sport. You don't see antelope heads hanging over a lions den.

Humans, on the other hand, have evolved malice, spitefulness, and a lust for power. Next to boredom (refer to previous post), malice, spite, and powerlust have propelled humanity up the evolutionary ladder, but at what cost? Some managed to retain their basic, shall we say, inhumanity, but everyone holds in them some sort of hatred that can't be found in any other animal.

Inhumane is inaccurate. To be inhumane is to act with extreme kindness, and to act with no prejudice.