"A person is a person, because of other people"

[Future_SSJGohan]

Does anyone know what this quote means?

In my opinion, I think its about social justice, and the fact that if people treat you like a human being, then you will be treated just that.

I think a prime example would be when blacks were not treated as people in the past, and it showed, when they had to do work that white people did not do. HOwever, now black people are accepted equally as white people, and now play the role of a "person".
What do you guys think?

 

[MF29]

A person is a person , because of other people

Have no clue what it means

 

[Dirty]

uhm, well it's kinda simple in my opinoin. a person, ill say for example me, im me because of who i am around my freinds ...people.... and everyone is a factor in creating you , the person,

 

[Rayos]

or maybe

You are you because no one else is like you and hence other people help define who you are by what they DON'T do and what you DO

 

[Dirty]

your just doing the contrapositive of what im saying....

 

[MC]

Does anyone know what this quote means?

In my opinion, I think its about social justice, and the fact that if people treat you like a human being, then you will be treated just that.

I think a prime example would be when blacks were not treated as people in the past, and it showed, when they had to do work that white people did not do. HOwever, now black people are accepted equally as white people, and now play the role of a "person".
What do you guys think?

Sociology get's in-depth of the reason why we turn out to be what we are. Who we are is entirely influenced by society and culture. If you want to get more specific, our relatives have an influence to what we become as well.

 

[Rayos]

it may be the contrapositive but in itself it is a completely different answer. Not who you hang out with but the way everyone else acts can define the characteristics that you have..

example...if everyone around you is very racist in speech but you are only slight in slipping a few "wrong words"...people there would consider you more PC since you are in that neighborhood where as if you were in a clean community you may be considered a racist

 

[frsrblch]

Person: (according to Black's Law Dictionary) "a human being is not a person because he is a human being, but reather because rights and duties have been ascribed to him. The person is the legal subject or substance of which rights and duties are ascribed."​

I've been reading quite alot on the subject of persons recently, on account of this video, which is greatly worth the watch. It's about a guy using the complexity of law against the government, all shown in lecture format.

 

[MC]

Person: (according to Black's Law Dictionary) "a human being is not a person because he is a human being, but reather because rights and duties have been ascribed to him. The person is the legal subject or substance of which rights and duties are ascribed."​

I've been reading quite alot on the subject of persons recently, on account of this video, which is greatly worth the watch. It's about a guy using the complexity of law against the government, all shown in lecture format.

No offense, but I wouldn't trust a guy that talks like this:

"If you hold your jacket like this and say go ahead and touch and the moment you touch it, I'm no longer associated with it, they're not going to want to do anything with that jacket, they're the ones left holding the hot potato."

I'm not saying believing in such a thing is wrong, it's just something I don't hear everyday. Though, I don't think the thread was aimed at things like that.

This is an interesting article at Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person

 

[frsrblch]

I think what he is saying about questioning authority is very true. It is very interesting to think about. Do they have power because they are the government or are they the government because they have power? Even if you laugh your way through it, it's worth seeing.

 

[Future_SSJGohan]

Guys, we are going a little off topic here, but anyway, do you guys think my explanation is good enough?

Its a pretty strange quote, that I might choose to write an essay on.

 

[MC]

Guys, we are going a little off topic here, but anyway, do you guys think my explanation is good enough?

Its a pretty strange quote, that I might choose to write an essay on.

I don't think you should use that as a topic, if anything try to keep it generalized.

 

[Synth]

I got handful of explanations, that sort of overlap each other.

1. You define yourself by who you put around you.
2. We're all just human, and we prove it by they way we interact with each other.
3. People use rumors, lies, and opinions to alter the widely accepeted perception of others.
4. We all show the same habits of being all human, so we can easily see who isn't. (mother ****ing aliens on a planet O_O)
5. It's who you met in life and didn't, that defined it.

As far as yours, I wouldn't recommend getting in an extended political/racist discussion. But, the civil rights movement in the '60s did prove that equality can't just be a state of mind, it has to be a reality. Which is something everyone can agree is how anything has to be with anything, in the end.

 

[Chakra-X]

I admit I was overwhelmingly confused about this thread. Like, 'Am I supposed to say what makes a human a human?' or talk about the Black-White status.

But I think I got the basic idea. "A person is a person, because of other people". Most of one's views and opinions can stem from a vast majority of things. Family, Friends, TV Shows, the News, Education...All which are human-created. If you were the only human on this planet, you'd probably act like an animal, but since we have a civilization, created by people, you must act a certain way to live in it.

Why have manners in public? Why act rational? Why care? Because you have others to interact with and you have to hold the most basic of traits to operate in our society. I am not saying we are all blindly conforming, but the parents raise a child, who have standards, so they pass down the standards and then outside influences assist in the directing.

Well, at least to ME that's what the quote sounds like.

 

[|Overlord|]

1. You define yourself by who you put around you.
2. We're all just human, and we prove it by they way we interact with each other.
3. People use rumors, lies, and opinions to alter the widely accepeted perception of others.
4. We all show the same habits of being all human, so we can easily see who isn't. (mother ****ing aliens on a planet )
5. It's who you met in life and didn't, that defined it.

Quoted for truth.

Another explanation that defines character is your dealings in the past, how you delt with them and how you got through them, whether they be rough/painful times. People would not be who they are today if they didn't get heart broken in the past, people would not be who they were today if they didn't deal with the loss of a loved one or a close friend, people would not be who they are today if they made a different decision in their lives (depending on that particular decision they make, an example is my uncle, he made the decision to quit smoking, and if he didn't make that decision he would still be smoking to this day).

 

[L]

I think that it means that we are whom we are becuase of our own personalities that differentiates us from other's.

 

[jp]

A person is a person, because of other people

Maybe the answer to this quote is really as simple as this quote is being said.

A person, is a person, because of other people, this means "you are you, because of those other people you know".

You, wouldn't be the "you" you know, if you wouldn't have known the people you know now, you would be another "you", we people are allways changing.

And then you might say "but what if I live allone, and born allone in a rainforest? like mowgli!

Yes, you would be allone, with no people, and turn into another person then that you would have been if you would have grown up in a normal family, but who put you there? an ape? a tiger? no, only a human could have put you there, only a human could have given you birth, so, thanks to that person, you are the person you are now.

maybe i'm being confusing here, and i'm sure it depends on how you interpretate it, but that is what I think, it means.

If quotes like that look simple, then they usually are.

Its just funny that a lot of people start to think in all sorts of directions, that in the end lead to nowhere.

 

[Synth]

Btw, are you writing an essay on this? And need an idea for your thesis statement?