The Paris mass carnage. Friday 13th November 2015: the streets of Paris, just like those of Kabul and many others in the conflict-torn cities worldwide, will never be the same again. This is a time to pause and reflect on what it means to be ‘human’, and what it means to be ‘dehumanised’, in a fast-paced and tumultuous world.
20 November 2015
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The Bridge Magazine seeks to focus on what it means to be human at this hour.
Psychopaths and sociopaths part, one of the core elements to being human is the ability to empathise, and also, thereby, rise above one’s more basic destructive instincts.
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Paris, the ‘city of romance’, turned into a war zone overnight, following a series of devastating gun and bomb attacks on defenceless citizens on Friday 13th November 2015.
It is believed that hundreds of Parisians have been severely wounded and killed. But those who took away the French fierté d’être and joie de vivre and who are to blame should not be our main concern at this moment.
In a bid to prevent this carnage happening again, not only in Paris but elsewhere in the world, The Bridge Magazine seeks to focus on what it means to be human at this hour.
Psychopaths and sociopaths part, one of the core elements to being human is the ability to empathise, and also, thereby, rise above one’s more basic destructive instincts.
The real challenge for humans today is how to ethically negotiate our way through a rapidly changing, fast-moving and often uncompromising world.
The dramatic changes of the past decade or so has rock our perception of the human condition to its core.
The online thesaurus definition of ‘human being’ is somewhat sterile, it states: ‘any individual of the genus Homo’ only.
One needs to be able to master turpitude, greed and evilness inherent in them to deserve to be called ‘human’.
I- What sets human apart from other species?
From a biological point of view…
From an emotional point of view…
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Rachel Tcheungna, Author, Writer of
The Bridge Books and
The Bridge Magazine Editor.