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What Does It Mean To Be Human? To be human, is to be involved in social and cultural interactions that shape our personality. Our culture is formed from our social interactions, and our social life's continuation depends on our culture. As Charlie demonstrates in the Star Trek episode "Charlie X", if you do not have social interaction and cultural ideas, values, and rules developed from a society, then you will not form a proper self-image, …

…a healthy, productive, society would not be possible. We depend on others for our physical survival (to grow and transport food, to provide shelter and clothing, to provide protection from enemies, ex.). And we also depend very much on others for our psychological wellbeing we need love, support, meaning, and happiness. So this means that human survival is dependent upon social affairs, which are both physical and emotional, that are met through interactions with others.