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Recently I got curious about Duolingo's Japanese courses, so I downloaded it
and skipped over to section 5. This is the highest level section where they
are still teaching you to my understanding. There is a section 6, but this
seems to be a daily review only.

Regardless, during the session I did, they asked me to translate the following
sentence: 俺は人間をやめるぞ！According to Duolingo, based on the words you're allowed
to select, the answer is "I reject my humanity"

But, I honestly read the Japanese as "I will stop mankind (the human race)!".
However, I could see Duolingo's translation being right if they used
[辞める](https://jisho.org/search/%E8%BE%9E%E3%82%81%E3%82%8B), but I would have
expected them to use the kanji to convey this. Especially given that the other
parts of the sentence are in kanji.

So how correct / natural is Duolingo here actually? How far am I off with my
interpretation?
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How correct is Duolingo with 俺は人間をやめるぞ！
I don't remember the scene, but the context of the phrase is, according to
[here](https://dic.nicovideo.jp/a/%E3%81%8A%E3%82%8C%E3%81%AF%E4%BA%BA%E9%96%93%E3%82%92%E3%82%84%E3%82%81%E3%82%8B%E3%81%9E!%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BC%E3%83%83!!),
that Dio mentions limitations of being a human and then says the phrase. The
intended meaning is that he is going _beyond_ human.

So both _reject_ and _stop_ would make sense: _reject_ all the limitations
associated with being a human or _stop_ being a human and become something
superior.

I guess the most literal word for the やめる is _to quit_.
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やめる is a transitive verb that can mean "to discontinue (an ongoing plan,
activity, etc)" or "to quit (smoking, habit, job, etc)", but it does not mean
"to stop/block (someone/something)" in general. 人間をやめる only means that he will
no longer be a human, regardless of whether it's written as 止める【やめる】 or
辞める【やめる】 in kanji. (止める without furigana would usually be read as とめる, so it's
in hiragana on purpose to avoid misreading.) "I reject my humanity" is a bit
of free translation but I believe it's correct.
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