What does it mean to be “humane?”

Question from the Internet:

“Why do people associate humanity with positive things like kindness and compassion even tho humanity has a lot of negative qualities that are human such as ignorance, greed, selfishness, and being prejudice to people who are different?”

This is because we have a ”sense” or “inner feeling” that “humanity should be associated with those positive qualities. Even theoretically and logically we can agree, that our collective survival necessitates those positive qualities, since without them we simply cannot survive one another.

On the other hand, human beings are very complex creatures, we are infinitely more complex and complicated than anything else in nature. We might see competition, fight, mutual destruction in nature as well – when we observe the external actions – but when we go deeper and understand how the natural system works, we see that even the “negative actions” unfold with a singular positive intention: to contribute to and sustain the general balance and homeostasis in order to support the whole system creating and nurturing life.

In nature all competition and “killing” unfolds with utmost precision, “out of mercy”, the predators helping the prey with natural selection while providing nutrition to the rest of the predators, scavengers and so on. Predaors are active tools in maintaining the healthy population and overall balance in the system and they “kill and consume” only what is absolutely necessary for that purpose.

Humans are “darker”. We are not integral parts of nature’s “circle of life”, we do not feel the intrincic balance, homeostasis and mutual guarantee of the system.

We exist only for ourselves, and we accumulate and consume everything only for our own sake, way beyond our actual necessities – of which necessities we have no idea about.

When we honestly look at human ity and the “positive and negative” qualities in us, we see that our negative qualities vastly outnumber or positive qualities, so much so, that we can’t actually find positive qualities in ourselves. Even when we seemingly act “humane”, with kindness, compassion or even love to others, there is always an ulterior, 100% selfish and individualistic calculation behind our actions. Just as with nature, when we go deeper to examine our intentions, our intentions are always and exclusively self-serving, self-justifying, subjective and exploitative towards others.

But this is not a sin, we are not evil. We were “created” by nature with these negative qualities, withy a 100% negative intention in order to recognize it, and then in congtrast, above and against the negative qualities and intention we could consciously and proactively learn and practive how to exist in a “truly humane” way, only with kind, emphatic, compassionate, loving and serving intentions towards others.

We have to willingly and consciously learn and practice how the rest of the natural system exist instinctively and automatically. And since we “become like nature” on our own accounts, proactively and with full awareness, we will become the natural system’s only fully conscious, integrated and at the same time independent observers and equal partners.

Through this unique “human education” we reach a totally tangible, realistic and visceral sense as if we ourselves designed and governed the whole natural system – but not with our original, selfish, egocentric and exploitative intentions, but with natures 100% altrusitic, benevolent and unconditionally serving intentions.

And then we will become like nature – meaning truly Human – creating and nurtuting life and knowing why and how to do it.