What is a man?
An easy question, but difficult to answer. Someone with knowledge of biology may I say something like "a man is the male individual of a species of primates, called Homo sapiens characterized by ...." A philosopher might answer me something like "a man is a free, thinking, reflecting on his own existence and the world." Someone with strong religious convictions would not hesitate to answer "the man is the pinnacle of God's creation." A physicist would say that "a man a highly complex thermodynamic system in a state far from equilibrium such that self-organize to acquire a complex configuration changes at each moment. "
However, the question raised in the trap. Pretended not to do anything beyond a joke. The joke is that after you break your head to partners looking for an answer, saying with calm air and a sardonic laugh, "a man is the instrument of a sperm to produce more sperm." (The joke could have been done with "What is a woman but as it would have sounded ?...", macho men opted for the option. As to prevent unnecessary problems.)
However, the course is extremely bleak joke. Any of the above (that of the philosopher, biologist, of the physical or the religious), perhaps would have been less descriptive, but more positive feelings had passed. For them there is room for confidence in human freedom in free will, that every person has life goals beyond the mere reproduction, .... Instead, say that a man is but a tool of a sperm, an instrument of some genes (apparently selfish), it becomes equivalent to saying that the goal that drives the lives of all is to reproduce. Than 80 years (to get lucky) life, suffering, stress, work, study, ... come down to a successful copulation. A being that only a head and a long flagellum is who controls us. And the sad thing is that it may be so. At least I did not trust anything important.
And all this thinking cheap, poor and nonsense is a story that a friend of mine posed the question "What is a chicken?" And his response was "the instrument of an egg to create another egg." The truth that as a joke is funny, and as a phrase, is clever, but it really is a definition that turns the tables (never better, talking about eggs) in principle, would be more logical to say that the egg is the tool for a hen to produce another chicken. But really, it is possible that the thing is the opposite of how we think, because what are the genes that survive, not chickens. Anyway, this is like arguing that the sex of the angels (by the way, what is an angel? The instrument of ... what?). Speaking of chickens, it seems these days has come the news that they have decoded the genome of chicken. And a English team (is what I find most curious of the story, taking into account the state of English science.) After this stupid joke
seudofilosófica firing me. But not before another riddle what is the closest animal to man?
No, not the chimpanzee. Is the woman.
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