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[SouL RippeR]

What is the most human characteristic fear or laziness??? :o

Which one was first?

B)

[Lazarus Long]

Laziness, because virually all animals experience fear, certainly not just humans. But laziness is a truly human quality because most animals that indulge it generally become extinct.

You can however add a number of other "human Emotions" like greed, envy, anger and maybe love. But there is a difference between these in their healthy and unhealthy forms as well. Fear for example is a very valid survival mechanism and should not be scoffed at except as phobic cowardice for it is in this form that we become self destructive as wellas detrimental to those around us.

[thefirstimmortal]

Laziness, because virually all animals experience fear, certainly not just humans. But laziness is a truly human quality because most animals that indulge it generally become extinct.  

Watching my cat, I would have to say animals can master Laziness;)

[SouL RippeR]

jjejee :D I know I've seen a lot of animals, but I wouldn't call it laziness, it's just that what else can you do as a dog or house cat rather than eat, runaround and then throw yourself in the floor and rest there all day until you eat again. On the contrary, humans we have lots of things that we can do, or invent, but we are lazzy and this is why I would agree with Lazarus Long. [!] But yes there are many other things and emotions which we could also consider.
[ph34r]

[Lazarus Long]

Cats and dogs have acquired some bad habits as a consequence of their domesticity but like a snake asleep don't forget that their predator nature is to waste no motion until focused upon the kill. You are anthropomorphizing their behavior actually. Even big cats in the wild will sleep for days to avoid the heat after a good feed but lazy free undomesticated animals are quickly dead animals.

[SouL RippeR]

YES INDEED LAZARUS! [!]
So then laziness isn't in our human nature either! Because then we would be extinct, right?