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[[This Loser Is You|Humans suck]]. [[Most Writers Are Human|We're]] flawed in our [[A Mind Is a Terrible Thing To Read|mental]], spiritual, and physical aspects, and to top it off we're [[Humans Are Morons|a bunch of morons]] and [[Humans Are the Real Monsters|bastards to everyone else]]... and especially to ourselves.
 
This gets worse if there are [[What Measure Is a Non -Human?|other races]] or [[What Measure Is a Non Super|super powered people]] in the setting, compared to them we ''[[Fantastic Racism|really]]'' suck, and there's [[Can't Argue With Elves|no arguing about it]]. Except... being flawed isn't necessarily a bad thing. To be human is to be flawed, limited, and finite; but to be a ''good'' human is to nonetheless struggle through and work against or despite these limitations. That we [[We Are As Mayflies|live short lives]] and die [[Time Dissonance|gives the time in our lives meaning]] and [[Creative Sterility|fuel for art, science and creativity]]. That we lack vast magical and psychic powers is countered because we can harness [[The Power of Love]], [[The Power of Friendship|Friendship]], [[The Power of Trust|and all those]] [[The Power of Rock|lovely pink emotions]].
 
So what if [[Rousseau Was Right|Rousseau]] isn't right and people are fundamentally mean, nasty and brutish? What merit is there in being good if you [[The Evils of Free Will|can't choose to do otherwise?]] Despite the inherent moral flaws of humanity, enough people are putting the effort into being [[Nice Guy|nice]] and [[The Heart|kind]] that it [[Earn Your Happy Ending|does make a difference]]. Even if [[Being Good Sucks]], humanity as a whole realizes deep down that [[Being Evil Sucks]] harder.<ref>(And yes, [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Incredibly Lame Puns]] are part of humanity's ''many'' unrepentant flaws.)</ref>
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The [[Patrick Stewart Speech]] usually has this as the core message. See also/compare [[Humans Are Special]].
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== Anime ==
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* In ''[[Resident Evil]]: The Darkside Chronicles,'' [[Mysterious Waif|Manuela]] comes to the conclusion that the ability to feel pain (mental/emotional pain at our mistakes, in particular) is what makes a person human, and that's a good thing, at least {{spoiler|as opposed to being a super tough (but mindless and destructive) zombie monster.}}
* While it first appears to set up a [[Humans Are the Real Monsters]] message, ''[[Eien no Aselia]]'' in the end opts for this. You have your instantly nice and understanding characters like Yuuto and Lesteena, your neutralish characters like Kouin and the populace at large and finally the evil people like Shun and Soma. The populace eventually grows to accept Yuuto and the spirits and see them as heroes, while Shun gets a decent motivation in a [[New Game Plus]] and a [[Sympathy for The Devil]] moment.
* This is very apparent in ''[[LA Noire|L.A. Noire]]'', what with the scores of less-than perfect people Cole encounters. This trop is even [[Invoked Trope]] by [[Dirty Cop|Roy Earle]], of all people ("Everyone has their vices, even you, Cole."). Even [[By the -The-Book Cop|Cole]] ends up {{spoiler|having an affair and leaving his wife and kids}}, and even then, his past was hardly spotless.
 
 
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