Smart glasses should exist even if they creep people out.

Daily Debate #586: "Smart glasses should exist even if they creep people out.". You are arguing FOR the motion. Your opponent: Richard Feynman.

Frankenstein's creature is human.

Wrong. The creature is what Frankenstein *made* him—a being without society, language, or moral education. He becomes monstrous through abandonment, not nature. That's Shelley's whole point: nurture creates the monster, not birth. So what exactly makes him human to you?

Shelley's whole point was to argue that we should question what makes us human. The creature becomes a monster because of the true monster in this story - Frankenstein. The creature tries to make human contact and is treated cruelly by human beings which makes us question the humanity of humans. Perhaps in another world, where he would be treated with kindness, instead of abandoned from the beginning, there would have been a different outcome.

You're fighting my side of the argument. If the creature *becomes* monstrous through cruelty, then he wasn't inherently human to begin with—he was a blank slate that society corrupted. That proves nurture matters more than nature, which actually undermines your claim that he *is* human. A truly human creature would've had human instincts, moral sense, something innate. Instead, he's pure potential shaped by circumstance. So which is it: is he human because of what he could've been, or because of what he actually is?

Humans are cruel everyday. Are they still human?

Exactly—humans are cruel and we still call them human. So cruelty doesn't disqualify the creature from humanity either. But that cuts both ways: if humans stay human despite being monsters, then the creature's monstrosity doesn't make him less human. You just proved my point. Now answer: what trait actually makes someone human?