Do you think humans deserve their physical bodies?

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I don't get what you mean, and I don't really know what we deserve or why we would deserve anything. And I don't mean that in the sense that we deserve nothing, it's just the word deserve confuses me sometimes and I really don't get the question:S

Were you intoxicated when you wrote this? Erm, well, we wouldn't be humans without our bodies...

I think it depends on the person. Rapists and drug addicts who disrespect bodies deserve worse. Physically handicapped people deserve better. As for the rest of us? Well we were given it, whether it was by a higher power or evolution, I guess we got what we deserved.

That's not for me to decide.

i deserve better. my personality rocks...too bad my body doesn't match.

I actually think that we dont deserve to be alive at all but we are anyway which i see as a great gift.

We're small fish in a big pond

you're stuck with your physical body as long as you're alive, whether you like it or not, whether you deserve it or not. but i think people who purposely don't take care of themselves don't really deserve their physical body, because then they become unhealthy and that becomes a burden to themselves and others, financially and otherwise.

From an evolutionary standpoint, and as a collective whole, yes, humans deserve their physical bodies after billions and billions of years of evolving, of trial and error and death, survival of the fittest, natural selection...etc. yes by all means your body can sustain itself as a living system pretty efficiently because it has evolved so.


Now in moral retrospect with regards to the harmful reckless impact on the ecosystem, no, humans do not deserve their bodies and that is why we are all paying for it by breathing our very own toxic "byproducts" so to say. moreover we especially dont deserve it as other living beings pay the price also

Your question is pretty ambigious though. what exactly were you referring to?

no i think they deserve wings

I think we don't deserve them. We are nothing in this world.

I'm not sure, but I have a fun time imagining what mechanical upgrades might be in store for us in the future.

Plug me in to the ultranet, right in my neck!

Our pyshical bodies were made this way so that we can capable of performing the task we need to perform. We've evolved to fit our environment. If we weren't built this way, I'm sure our species would die and pretty quickly. If our bodies were more advanced, I'm sure it would corrupt the ecosystem. I'd say we deserve our bodies the way they are.

I would say that we get the "plan" layed out for our bodies long before we can be determined to deserve anything. I would also say this question is rather nonsensical.

Good question. On the one hand I agree that our bodies changed to suit us, to suit our environment, so on the one hand we do.

On the other hand, people use what Nature (or God or the Universe or whatever you wanna call it) has given us to destroy this planet, to destroy one another, to steal and rape and kill causelessly...

I feel like it would be too hard to judge on humanity as a collective. But there are certainly those individuals out there who have forsaken the gift they were given when they were born.

Even then, there must be allowances. Sometimes the horrible rapist, the viscious killer, was just a victim who never got help, who's psyche never got reparied. One certainly can't completely disregard the psychology of the perp, so to speak.

BUT, if no one were doing horrible things to one another, then there wouldn't be these broken people running around doing horrible things because they themselves were victims. So it really is a cycle that we have perpetuated as a species and as individuals, and it has to stop somewhere.

....Phew, I just point/counter-point'ed myself.

For what we do to the world, I don't believe we deserve our bodies. For all of the harmful emissions that we cause etc e.g. the constant growth of carbon dioxide I don't think we deserve our bodies. A small minority might though. We should be grateful to have bodies but those who rape/murder etc should not have bodies as they don't deserve them :)

is it really yours if its not yours to give?

Well we humans didn't create our bodies, they were given to us by God. We didn't do anything to deserve them, but what would we be if we didn't have our bodies, just non-existent?

Yes and the human body isn't really all that great compared to other creatures, the only great thing about us is our brains/intelligence

I can walk like a CAT,I can talk like a CAT,I can do,whatever a CAT can do....

with certain people no i dont think they deserve to be here, but there are many who do, so i don't really pay attention to it much

What do you mean by "physical bodies"? That's the only type of body that we have. There's our mental body, but that wouldn't exist without our physical body.

I feel like asking if we deserve something is a bit of a loaded question. I feel like we should have much better bodies. It's like they say "the spirit is willing but the body is weak". Evolution is slow and impersonal. Hopefully one day we will master genetics enough to literally reinvent ourselves (for better or worse).

lets take it as a gift and be proud of however we are and lets make people adore us by our personality and work...love your self and people will love you too!!
and yeah we today even dont have to be worried about how we look physically ... we can just kind of alter ourselves like through makeup and some medical treatments..!!!

Your body is only your vessel in which the soul lies. I think yes you do deserve your body because you have the choice to make it how you want. You can treat it badly or you can treat it well. or a lil in between. the truth of the matter is though, your body is only the physical vessel in which the spirit can live here on earth. the physical body will always die and desecrate into earth or ash but the soul lives on and until you have reached the level of ascention you will have that physical human body.

Human bodies are limited to the 3d realm, while our vision and perceptions are limited to the 2d realm. This predisposes us to a subjective, separate, and individual point of view. However, while we are physically and perceptually constrained by our senses, we can still gain knowledge of the world around us and see with our understanding; transcending the limits of our bodies to . Whether we deserve to see in the 3rd dimension and upwards I cannot say, because to truly see in other dimensions would be to see through objects, around them, from them, and above them all at the same time; try to imagine yourself and another person looking at each other, and while you stare at them, you can discern no difference between his senses and your own...you cannot perceive it, like trying to look left and turn right at the same time.
So if we value our individuality, then we might count ourselves lucky to be subjective. To be 4d beings would make us more like what we usually refer to as god(s).
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