I was riding in the car with a two of my friends and one of them talked about how the suburbs are slowly killing us and making us all the same. I replied that throughout human history, humanity has been basically uniform. The idea of differences being positive is a new idea. I don't think being unique is important and I would definitely stop if everyone wasn't so fucking stupid. I yearn for the day when everyone will hold the exact same views as me on everything.
Well, in the end we are all "unique", just as each atom is unique, and each composition is unique, and each environment you grow up in is unique.
But in general, uniformity helps a to organizate better society I think, or at least is morally right.
Although this "uniformity" shouldn't limit your rights, your freedom of will and speech, etc...
In fact, for one's personal life, it doesn't even matter, it only would matter in a bigger scale...
Atoms arent unique. What is the difference between two carbon atoms? I think that we can notice differences between people, but being different for the sake of being different is stupid. The only fault with following the crowd is the crowd is wrong.
Each atom is unique, meaning one atom of carbon is different from another one spatially, temporally, electronically (how their electrons are dispossed regarding location), and also at subatomic scale maybe...
The concept of "difference" nowadays is applied more generally, it is not like saying "I am different from you because this little arm hair has an angle of 45 º and yours 35º". Socially difference would apply to certain characteristics in personality and physical appareance and morality etc, which are in essence slightly different from another person. Uniformity is regarding political views, spatial location maybe, and some other factors, which cen't be done entirely, but are present in humanity in the form of cultures and societies, which in turn advance humanity in a way....
No, if each atom of carbon was unique there would be no need to call them carbon atoms. They are able to be called carbon atoms because there are certain characteristics all carbon atoms share, namely their behavior.
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