I'm not sure. I base all of my opinions on the people I've seen and met. Out of all that, I conclude that all people (within the society you defined) are untrustworthy and think only of ruling out others less influential than themselves and their groups. Since they all have similar destructive beliefs for others, I say that all groups are the same. Groups, in my world, do nothing but destroy. I really prefer to call it the majority; a throng of idiots who would all agree that a person they don't even know, save five, should be burned at the stake.

It isn't the minor things that connect people that concern me. The small things that bring people together are unimportant when I talk about individuals. It doesn't matter if you eat dinner with a murderer, the person shouldn't be associated with, for safety concerns. I believe in separating myself from the undesirable parts of society, and I think that no matter what I will always be different from the person next to me because of my distinct beliefs. There may be people out there like me, but they are nearly nonexistant, since lightning doesn't strike the same place twice. Nature does have some symetry, but perfection isn't natural, thus, I don't think it's possible for everyone to have everything in common. I guess you didn't say that, but I still wanted to express that point. If they don't have everything/the important things in common, then how can they be put into the same group?

1a + 1b = ?

When peers disowned me in elementary, my power had to come from myself. I don't spend wasteful hours trying to befriend others, since I know ahead of time that they aren't a lot like me and will eventually split and go their separate ways.

Thanks for replying. My ideas are based on opinions, which apparently have little power in this field. I'll read some more, but I will never consider a society diverse in respect to the overall opinion it has of self-importance and certain "values" that keep it in so-called "order."

I was mainly talking about the original values of nature that make humans group into reckless racists etc. When the majority has such values, coming from a lack of self-control over their filthy natural impulses, it takes away from others who don't have such ideas, such as the minority or lesser groups. I would like to believe in individuals.


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~ I liked reading about informal deviance. That sounds a lot like myself, but wikipedia had "picking one's nose" as an example, lol, something I would not like to do. I still think society (the whole shi-bang; international, worldwide, all people etc.) sucks... : ]

~ S.A.