Originally Posted by
HZ514
Carn tilted his head after listening to your questions, thinking for a moment before answering in quite a Socratic manner while absentmindedly sharpening his blades. "Imagine, if you will, that your species could not speak. No, not just that. Imagine that humans could not think. Not in the truest sense of the word, at least. Instincts and conditioned responses would be all that drive them to do what they do.
"But you are different. You can speak. You can think. You can control yourself in a manner that isn't just above their abilities, it's above their very comprehensions. If that were the case...how would you view your so-called 'peers' in life?
"Would you still be 'human' in that case? Or would you be something more?"