What Does Every Human Being Share?

[4sak3n]

If you were to pinpoint one quality, attribute or habituated activity that all humans share, what would it be?

I am not talking about biological imperatives. Yes, every single human being breathes, excretes, sweats and sleeps but this is by necessity rather than choice, cultural conditioning or habituated responses.

So, if you were to choose one thing that all (within reason here ... I'm sure that the 0.000000001% of the population who don't have specific taste buds would count if you were to choose enjoying food for example) that either is inherent to all humans or which exemplifies what it means to be human, what would it be?

If my rather wordy explanation is, well, wordy, some examples might help. Some responses might include the need for company, the desire to communicate, curiosity, an appreciation of art or the urge to excel.

 

[mala]

facebook

 

[j2s]

Self-Preservation......

 

[aichtwooh]

imagination/creativity

 

[Skydiver1]

The desire to appreciated/recognised

 

[agilis]

Denial and self-deception.

 

[boulderjohn]

I believe that every human being, whether it be an Inuit in a tiny village in Alaska, a Polynesian on a remote Pacific island, a stock broker on Wall Street, an Islamic extremist in Yemen, a Mormon polygamist in a desert in Utah, shares an unshakable conviction that Starbucks charges way too much for a cup of coffee.

 

[Dsix36]

To reproduce

<edit> possibly just practicing is enough without actually reproducing </edit?

 

[JamesK]

Hate.

 

[kombiguy]

Every human being is the repository of an irreducible dignity.