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Originally Posted by Restrikted  If I took pictures of ten random chimpanzees and ten random spider monkeys, and then showed them to you, could you tell the difference? We're all part of the same family. We're the same even if we're different. Also, what is that a picture of? |
I told you. It's a human being. Just carbon dust.
If you are incapable of making distinctions, then you cannot discover nuance. And I'm not as obsessed with monkeys as you are, so no, I probably wouldn't be able to tell.
Difference is not binary: it is a spectrum, a continuum. To focus on our similarities is to avoid the empowerment of the individual. To focus on our differences is to forget what brotherhood means. So again, certainly, there is a binding similarity that draws us together--we could call it life, we could call it molecular bonds, we could call it string resonance--but the differences are also appreciable.
If you see something you detest, you may have much similarity, but the direction in which you wish to go is to distinguish yourself, to discriminate and to distance. Why? Because you disagree with it. Without distinction, we have absolute inertia, the heat death of the universe, utter homogeneity.