Of course I do, but I wouldn't really mind if I was killed by an ice age or even died. Not going to go ahead and kill myself, nor am I going to become an extremist and live in the woods on my own nuturing the earth. But humans are the way they are, and I don't believe anything will ever change that, short of us not existing.

Hell, I'd rather be celibate!

I've actually taken the time to appreciate being a human at one point or another. It usually occurs to me when I kill a mosquito or see some sort of road kill.

Ok Septiego, thank you VERY much for making my point easier to understand.

um...beware of what holes you choose to use?

Do explain .

Well, for pretty much the same reasons that other people have posted. Sure, humans have done and are still doing terrible things, to one another and to the other organisms on this planet. However, humans have also done so many good things and accomplished such incredible achievements that when people say they'd rather see the whole human race exterminated I tend to look something like http://www.google.nl/imgres?imgurl=http://www.geardiary.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/wpid-picard-facepalm.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.geardiary.com/2009/12/31/captain-picard-to-be-sir-captain-picard/&h=606&w=921&sz=25&tbnid=cqcEwyFy9ECiVM:&tbnh=105&tbnw=160&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dpatrick%2Bstewart%2Bfacepalm%26tbm%3Disch%26tbo%3Du&zoom=1&q=patrick+stewart+facepalm&docid=ndEQ3PBlzCewTM&sa=X&ei=sAFkTsXcC8f0-ga22aCJCg&ved=0CCsQ9QEwAg&dur=147, only slightly less awesome.

Nope. Not proud to be human. I'm waiting for the day where something bigger comes along and eats the entire species in one gulp.

I don't think we can take pride until we find another sentient life form able to form its own culture and understand its exsistence.

Then we can compare and kill each other for awhile and develop animosity of pride for our race.

Oh and what about that whole humanism movement back in the renaissance. God can have heaven, we got earth, so svck it!

I see a hedgehog with a ghetto voice and a trilby hat.

Look at all the destruction humanity has caused, now look at all the accomplishments humanity has had.
Do they level out each other? No. We aim to be better than anyone else, I sure as hell am not proud of that, but it's true.
Although humanity has done some good things, what those good things were, I don't know.
So... no I'm not proud of being human, (but I am proud of what I am) :disguise: but is there anything better than being human?
Other than being an alien, no. That'd be so cool though. :spotted owl:

:lol: at the alien bit and this

I do consider myself to be a human first, and Australian/British a very distant second.... Never understood the idea of being proud of an artificial construct, like a country, simply because you were born within its human-drawn lines. Never really understood the concept of "Race" or "Ethnicity".

But there are certain things I suppose in British history I'm "proud" of, Clause 29 of the 1297 Magna Carta gives me a very warm feeling whenever I read it.

As for being proud of being human, we've got lot as a species to be proud of, and a lot of shame. I think if you were to map human history to a single persons life, we're still in our early teens - children make mistakes, teenagers make mistakes but begin to understand why they're mistakes and try to fix things that are wrong. I only wish I could live to see the human race in its metaphorical advlthood.

This question doest even make sense. Perhaps if there were more sentient beings.

You mean sapient beings?

Just read the darn thread. It's a question of whether you're proud of humanity's achievements of ashamed of their failings.

Still doesnt make any sense. We do whats in our nature, which is to create, just to destroy. I dont see any pride, or shame in it. Just the natural way humans are. Again, I think we'd need something to compare ourselves with, to accurately judge.


Yes, I clicked the wrong word in spell check, lol.

I think humanity on the whole has done more harm that good.

It doesn't really change my answer from "I didn't work to be human". They're not my achievements, and I see no reason to be proud of other people's actions just because I'm part of their group. If I were one, I wouldn't be proud to be a baseball player because some guy threw a ball really far a hundred years ago. It makes absolutely no sense to me.

I'm neither. Being proud ignores all the horrible things we've done, not being proud ignores all the great things we have done. I'm some shade of gray.

I despise my humanity.

I don't really give a rat's rear end about what any other human has done. Just because they're human doesn't mean I associate their actions and achievements with my own in any way. When I'm proud, it's because I've done something. When I'm ashamed, it's because I've done something. Humans are not some single, hive-minded individual... they're individuals (plural) that vary greatly from one another in all different aspects other than genetics and genetics are not the sole factor that should tie everyone and their actions together, in my opinion.

I'm curious what people mean by our doing more bad than good. In what aspect? What we've done to the planet? Animals? Fellow humans? Same goes for what we've done that's good. When looking at what humans have done, it becomes evident that humans are equally capable of "good" or "bad" and that the simple status of being human doesn't factor. So if you're looking at whether you should be proud of being a member of your species or not because of the morals that humans have displayed as a whole, it really makes no sense.

Interesting thing about human species... I think we're probably the only animal classification known to us that have moral concepts of "good" and "bad". The universe sure doesn't set its own moral standards.

I know. It may actually best to stop good/evil talk now though, It just occurred to me that it could incite some off-limits religious discussion.