I Have Random Thoughts

To be curious means to somehow ignore the tendency and sometimes urge to generalize. Generalizations may be practical and that may be why we have evolved to gravitate towards them but every time you make a case or statement more general you lose some of its fit to reality. Details make up the universe even though generalizations may guide us through it.

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SW-User

This is absolutely true, which is why I really abhor generalisations, though I have been guilty of them time to time.
The other side of the coin of reality is however its existence. How real is reality and how much of it is just our perception? And to those who generalise, that is their reality. So maybe they've not really lost anything, just see it from a different angle.