To be a human is to have emotions, to empathize with people, and to have memories and a past which you value. In Blade Runner, the replicants express more emotions than any human does. The humans operate as if they are machines, not taking into consideration the feelings of others, least of which the replicants. The replicants, although they are merely 'manufactured machines' begin to act in a more considerate, humane way than the actual …showed first 75 words of 976 total…

…showed last 75 words of 976 total…in a way not entirely known to man, and replicants are created artificially by man, there are so many similarities between them that it is virtually impossible to tell them apart. The two are almost identical, if anything replicants act with more empathy and compassion than any human does. Humans begin to learn from the replicants, Roy teaches Deckard what it really means to be human. It becomes evident that ultimately, there is no difference.