the important questions

[playdolls]

PITOU BLYTHE @DRBLYTHE
What do you think: are you human?

Comments

[thesettingsun]

Isn't the definition of two creatures being in the same species them being able to produce fertile offspring?

This is an actual question, I haven't taken biology since high school.

[playdolls]

Do you think biological study as you know it is sufficient to describe what we experience in the city?

[thesettingsun]

No, but it's a place to start.

[playdolls]

Fair enough. But does my answer change yours? Maybe some more nuance. Why qualify that you could breed successfully?

[thesettingsun]

Because philosophers have been arguing about what it is to be 'human' for millennia, and they'll probably keep arguing about it until the end of the universe. I don't have a solid answer for what makes a human different from a cat-person or something like that, philosophy-wise.

Science is a little simpler, even if it's not my strong suit. I was born a homo sapiens and I am currently a homo sapiens.

[playdolls]

[ WHY GO STRAIGHT TO CAT PEOPLE. PITOU WILL CLAW THEIR OWN FACE OFF. ]

I don't care for philosophy.

[thesettingsun]

Then why ask a philosophical question?

[playdolls]

I wanted to hear the answers. I wanted to know if anyone else has realized that they aren't. And how.

[thesettingsun]

I might get ink for blood sometime. That's going to be fun and exciting.

[playdolls]

Ah. Well, you might be right.
You're maybe human with some magic. I'd like to study it but I don't see too many of you gearing up to be fully autopsied.

[thesettingsun]

I'll pass on that, thanks.

[playdolls]

I suppose I could examine you without cutting you up. Although don't some of us have incredible healing factor?
Maybe it would be fine.

[thesettingsun]

I don't have a healing factor! No thanks!!

[playdolls]

Oh well, let me know if you develop anything interesting, I'd love to take a look.

[thesettingsun]

I'll keep that in mind.

[Actually he's going to try to forget this conversation as quickly as possible.]