"We are humans first" is a motto often invoked. It is quite right in many ways because we are more than our gender, we are more than our job, we are more than our family role, we are more than our age, we are more than our nationality. In architecture, you consider the "human" first before the aesthetics; Better yet, to make it aesthetically and functionally suitable for the "human being".
Yet, there is something that is unsettling about the "we are humans first" that I never use it as my motto. It raises the question of what it is to be human? There would be a whole lot of variance that I simply can not trust that motto.
The Nazi Regime considers the Arian race as the supreme human race while the rest are sub-human. The White race used to call the black race as sub-human. Even the pre-Christian era has sub-human slaves. The pro-abortion advocates call the child in the womb as sub-human. Socialism's criterion of humanity is productivity. Those who believe in the physical being alone would have health as a criterion of one's humanity.
I can not entrust myself to such a motto. Our humanity comes from our Creator who created us in His Image with a Divine plan.
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