What does it mean to be human?

What does it mean to be human? There is much discussion in society about gender and defining what it means to be male or female. Yet this question, the starting point to any discussion of identity, is given little honest thought. And when it does come around, discussion typically revolves around potential or utility. To be a human is based on what we might become, or what we actually do.

When someone asks us what we do for a living, for example, we say “I am a [fill in the blank].” When we t...