"The smallest minority on earth is the individual."

@SW-User I am an individual.

@quietlitany Of course you are. ☺

@SW-User As are you. Your thoughts in your head operate independently of others and I'm sure we could find an infinite amount of differences between the two of us alone.

@quietlitany No, I'm not. As much as I want to be and often like to say I am. Those thoughts, whether consciously or subconsciously, have been and are constantly influneced by my surroundings, that includes others. The need to fit in overrides the desire to stand out. Individuality is just a mask we put on when we wanna feel different enough from others, but without really stepping too far away from their norms and standards. You'd still be following the herd, but you're just a few steps behind.

@SW-User Pol Pot filled acres and acres with the skulls of folks who believed the same shit as you!

@fancyboy I don't give a fuck, that's not a counterargument.

@SW-User Oh, I know you don't give a fuck. You're so committed to the movement that culling out fellow humans who don't accept your groupthink is perfectly acceptable - by whatever means.

@fancyboy lol what movement? Maybe try to discuss my actual arguments, you know.. ideas vs ideas. Or at least be a whole lot better at trolling, cause right now this is just pathetic.

@SW-User How do you know they're your ideas? For that matter, how are you sure I'm trolling? My disagreeing with you is causing you to react in the socially prescribed manner - consciously or subconsciously......

@SW-User The human brain develops from stimulus, but not everyone reacts to the same stimuli the same way. There are biological differences and a whole textbook series in between. We do function alone, even those in isolation develop their own culture as seen in the South American jungles or that weird family in Russia that had been isolated for decades.

If your argument is, no one is an individual because our brains operate on a similar basis, that is, we need input to develop, then you're arguing from the absurd. We are social animals, but we don't feel collectively, we don't experience collectively. If you and I are in different rooms and there is a mortar that lands in the house, we will have different experiences, reactions, and we won't feel each other's pain if one of us is wounded. Our experiences in the same event will be different.

Then there's the small matter of individual experience prior. Similarity is not congruence. Also, we have to TRAIN to work together. I have a military background and even after basic, we still needed a lot of training to learn how to work together, we had to learn to stop being individuals and practice it. Mistakes were still made and not everyone knew how to do the same things as well, despite standardized training over a period of time.