Why are some people so obsessed with the delusion of uniformity?

[TheSpaceGnome]

Stereotypes
Fitting in
Astrology/Horoscopes
Gender "mentalities"
Bahavioral "statistics"
Opinion "statistics"
Which country or state or city "likes what"
The list goes on..

The real world has individuals with high variance, not mass produced copies catagorized into neat little groups.

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I think people aren't understanding the question.

I'm not asking why people prefer belonging to groups vs being alone, I'm asking why they place people as similar to one another when they aren't.

And because I'm sure people will misunderstand that too:

A very small amount of people are just like you, the large amount that you stereotype aren't just like you, so why do you claim that they are? it's not going to result in anything, you can't fit in where you don't fit. So why stereotype?

[tony_baloney]

I think it's kinda funny that people consider every person unique, then a second later talk about how we're all the same lol. It all depends on what they want. People often believe in what they want to be true and what they think is fair instead of what is objectively true and fair

[TheSpaceGnome]

The truth is that roughly 0.000001% to 20% of people are just like you mentally, depending on where you are and who you are, unless the population is low in your area, then it could be 0%.

[tony_baloney]

Eh. Even I'm not immune to the very human drive toward tribalism. there's security in groups, both physical and psychological and we know that instinctually

[TheSpaceGnome]

That isn't contrary to my point. I wasn't mentioning groups of people in the sense of solitude vs tribalism, more in the sense of not enough similar people tend to exist in one area to "form a tribe" if you base it off mental similarities.

What people want vs whats true is usually different.

[tony_baloney]

What I meant by mentioning that I'm still probably subject to biases introduced by either my culture, upbringing, peers, etc. People surround themselves with like-minded individuals. Probably not purposely to confirm our biases, but that's likely a side effect.

[TheSpaceGnome]

That doesn't explain why they make claims about those they aren't around based on those they are.

[Apulu_Imback]

Biologically in general we are just humans. But we are unique because of our personality. It is said we are all equal to show that things like race, religion and gender and stuff doesn't change the fact that we are human and it shouldn't be used to make someone feel like an outcast or to criticize them.

[TheSpaceGnome]

People are not equal, some individuals are smarter, more talented, more skilled, more capable in various ways at various things. People fill niches, they might be good at many things, a few things, or only 1 thing, or nothing, and in either case, they may choose to do or not do any of it because of preferences.

Races have their differences, as do individuals, and thats fine. Religions should be discouraged in favor of knowledge, gender has no impact on personality, and being different always results in being outcast in some situations, while accepted in others. Critisim is valid in certain cases but not in others.

There are going to be people who disagree with me about some or all of that, and that further reveals my point of how different people are.

[Apulu_Imback]

Well I don't disagree with your point. I mean we all are equal biologically in general. We digest food same way, we breathe from nose. We are humans so we are equal in that basis. There maybe certain differences but in the end we all survive the same way.

We are unique on basis of our personality and mentality as you explained very well.

The origin of the thing that everyone is equal came to stop people discriminating others on basis of race, religion, gender and stuff.

[TheSpaceGnome]

Discrimination stems from disagreements, there will aiways be disagreements because of different personalities, and people will always want to be around those who agree with them (the problem I brought up, is when they blanket assume on who does).

A religious person for example, should be discriminated against when hiring a physics professor, because you need to have the mentality of disproving assumptions to know how to do that job.

A person who thinks its ok to have casual sex sith strangers really shouldn't be in healthcare professions.

Someone who hates video games shouldn't be making them.

If you dislike x hobby, the club for it won't let you in.

Life is all about exclusion and being a specialist.

I'm simply pointing out how the number of types are high, not low.

[Apulu_Imback]

But surely stereotypes and discriminative attitude have reduced a lot and this everyone is equal thing was a huge part to reduce it. I agree with you though, everyone is unique but biologically we are human only. We are all individually unique.

[FilmGuy93]

People want to feel like they belong to certain groups.

[TheSpaceGnome]

They do, those groups are just a lot smaller, and there are a lot more of them, and the people are much harder to find in most cases.

[FilmGuy93]

Yeah… people be strange that way sometimes