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Fukuyama defines factor x as not only what makes a human a human but the different traits that add up to being human. The choices and decisions we choose to make are what makes human. These choices we make are important because we as humans can debate and formulate rules of justice. The ability to be diplomatic makes us humans political. Fukuyama compares humans to computer programs because he claims we as humans are programmed to feel a certain way and react a certain way toward different situations. “Dignity supports our individual identity, and it is a critical element which protects our soul. Dignity enables us to move forward, intact, through various life stages.” (Mertz, 2010) Earlier in history, people believed that Factor X only occurred in certain sexes, races, and tribes. It was also found that people with birth defects, or low intelligence contrary to the belief that Factor X supports the human race equally. Our inner soul is what makes us fundamentally human, without this our human body is considered a “vegetable” as Fukuyama states in his theory. I believe this is a universal trait because everybody is born with a soul and learns to be morally good or bad.
I believe these traits are learned and it’s not genetically transferred, because as we grow we learn and experience and make decisions based off of these experiences. It can be lost through depression. Common symptoms of depression are fatigue, feeling lifeless, having a lack of purpose, as well as making bad decisions because your persona changes and you have no dignity while feeling depressed. Dignity can be both gained and lost in the market because being raised and taught a sense of morality helps with making positive life choices, and it can be lost through b...

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...bers of formally disrespected groups, for example women, gays, or handicapped humans. The demand for any quality of recognition or respect is the dominant passion of modernity. Thus, it is not necessarily that we think we are equal in all important respects, or demand that our lives be the same as everyone else’s. Most people accept that fact that legendary role models have talents and abilities also recognize all that they have accomplished with those talents, and as positive as the sense of knowing the possibility of it they still feel the sense of lacking what these legends have accomplished seemingly unworthy to do the same. A human being isn’t born completely understanding exactly how much strength their own will power can have on their own life. With a strong sense of well-being we are able to succeed at our best despite our imperfections and “disabilities”.

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