Humans, not Artifacts, Thank you!

In class, there was a point raised about humanstechnically being artifacts, in the sense, that our parents made us, society shapes us, and as we grow older we have more and more control over our appearances and choices--we MAKE ourselves into something. Well, while I agree with these things, I cannot agree with the sugestion that humans are artifacts. Aftifacts are human crafted objects which are used to serve a purpose. Everything from the paint on the walls to the hormones in our food was create to perform some necessary function. As far as I know, there are no shortages of humans anywhere, and other than increasing the population, which we would be doing anyway, we would not be serving a function, not created for some purpose.