"There's only 2 kinds of people in the world.."

[Juliette]

Statement = idiotic no matter what follows.
While it is true that there ARE but 2 kinds of people, namely people for whom A applies and people for whom A does not apply.. it's just stupid.

Why even go through the trouble of uttering it?

[Ashu]

I believe its some kind of compartimentalisation in order to put yourself in statement A(usually) and people you don't think are worthy enough and for which statement A does not apply as you said.Yes its stupid but people need to feel special...

[sniperbull]

I believe its some kind of compartimentalisation in order to put yourself in statement A(usually) and people you don't think are worthy enough and for which statement A does not apply as you said.Yes its stupid but people need to feel special...

Yes people need to feel special, but not at the expense of others opinions, feelings or views. You cant be allowed to make yourself feel better while dragging someone else down.

[Ashu]

I believe its some kind of compartimentalisation in order to put yourself in statement A(usually) and people you don't think are worthy enough and for which statement A does not apply as you said.Yes its stupid but people need to feel special...

Yes people need to feel special, but not at the expense of others opinions, feelings or views. You cant be allowed to make yourself feel better while dragging someone else down.

We do so when we feel socially threatened by said people and usually don't realise when it happens.We just can't live and thing the others are our equals.Their not,we are all special in out own way but life is not a competition of whos better!

[sniperbull]

I believe its some kind of compartimentalisation in order to put yourself in statement A(usually) and people you don't think are worthy enough and for which statement A does not apply as you said.Yes its stupid but people need to feel special...

Yes people need to feel special, but not at the expense of others opinions, feelings or views. You cant be allowed to make yourself feel better while dragging someone else down.

We do so when we feel socially threatened by said people and usually don't realise when it happens.We just can't live and thing the others are our equals.Their not,we are all special in out own way but life is not a competition of whos better!

I never said that everyone has an equal. i feel that everyone has their own special qualities and personality traits, but, at the same time, no person in the world is above another. we are all equal, AND deserve to be treated the same as others.


Corrected

[Ashu]

we are all equal, or deserve to be treated the same as others.

Theres a HUGE difference!

[sniperbull]

we are all equal, or deserve to be treated the same as others.

Theres a HUGE difference!

Sorry

Meant AND

its been a long day

[Deaths_Rider]

while that is great in principle we are not all equal and treating each other as such is a disturbing genralisation that has many problems while all people deserve a basic level of respect and care not all people are equal and its wrong to assume they are

[[KMA]Avenger]

depends on what you mean by equal.

we ARE ALL born equal with equal inalienable rights (inalienable is actually pronounced: in-aleen-able and NOT in-alien-able).
also we ARE ALL sovereigns and ALL equal to any king, queen, lord or whatever, these are nothing more than titles, there is no such thing as royal blood, that makes us all equal....


so, please define in what context you mean by equal?

[Duderanch]

life is not a competition of whos better!

Ofcorse it is!

[sniperbull]

life is not a competition of whos better!

Ofcorse it is!

thats where unnesscesary wars come from. Its all egocentrisim

[Ashu]

life is not a competition of whos better!

Ofcorse it is!

thats where unnesscesary wars come from. Its all egocentrisim

Actually its fualling te stupid need of "supremacy" which is nothing but an inadequate validation of society

[sniperbull]

life is not a competition of whos better!

Ofcorse it is!

thats where unnesscesary wars come from. Its all egocentrisim

Actually its fualling te stupid need of "supremacy" which is nothing but an inadequate validation of society

One wouldnt feel supreme if one wasnt egocentric. the belief in egocentrism is that they are the best, and that they are the center of everything, and that those around them are second to them. this idea allows for prejudicial thinking, the feeling of supremacy, and the belief that everyone should be like them... which leads to conquests, and war.

[Deaths_Rider]

depends on what you mean by equal.

we ARE ALL born equal with equal inalienable rights (inalienable is actually pronounced: in-aleen-able and NOT in-alien-able).
also we ARE ALL sovereigns and ALL equal to any king, queen, lord or whatever, these are nothing more than titles, there is no such thing as royal blood, that makes us all equal....


so, please define in what context you mean by equal?

by equal i mean treated equally while i agree that there are somethings that should be given to every human to say we should all be treated equally is nothing but pie in the sky idealism. if we were all treated the same for any given situation we would have to be treated like the stupidist person in the world or else not everyone would understand and it would not be equal.

not being equal doesn;t mean one is better than the other an apple is not equal to an orange dosen't mean one is better

treating everyone as equal is a great thoery but much like other great theorys in the real world it doesn't work.

[Kit-Fox]

Statement = idiotic no matter what follows.
While it is true that there ARE but 2 kinds of people, namely people for whom A applies and people for whom A does not apply.. it's just stupid.

Why even go through the trouble of uttering it?

People are socially programmed to identify with similar people, this starts when you first start to recognise your surroundings. As a baby you will identify with people who have the same skin colour as you to begin with and then you start noticing things like eye colour / hair colour etc as you get older.

The logical extension of this is that when you start recognising other groups such as geeks / jocks etc etc (insert your social groups of choice here) that you will identify with the group you are a part with and lump everyone else into one other group irrespective of what groups they may or may not belong too.

Its a well documented psychological effect, people like to belong to groups.