He, She and It: Post-class Reaction

I feel like an important part that we didn’t get to in our discussion is the nature of Yod’s creation. More than once it was said that both Joseph and Yod were not “born” like children from a mother. I find Yod’s coming to consciousness very interesting. He was just bombarded with sensation and knowledge, and his initial reaction was to retreat. And Shira even makes a comment that he came into the world just like all children: protesting and angry (page119). This coming into consciousness with all knowledge makes me think of Paul’s sister Alia in Dune. She too was born in such a way that basically skipped over childhood and made her more knowledgeable than the average human.
Another concept that that should be taken into consideration concerning the human vs. non-human argument is the hypocrisy of human, who believe they have the right to define who deserves human rights. As mentioned in class, humans more than once considered someone of different background as less than them and not really human, the obvious example being blacks. So humans (and in some cases specific groups of them) consider themselves the sole deserving organisms of the right to call themselves persons and deserving the natural rights given to humans (like the right to be in control of one’s life).