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12550326, RE: this is what im saying, if everything is relative
Posted by tomjohn29, Tue Aug-19-14 06:34 PM
>what need is there to "rank" people? one thing may be good
>for one person, another thing may be good for another. if
>you're better at running and im better at abstract thinking,
>why do I need to rank you as inferior. why cant we just be
>different?

who's doing this?
nobodies is ranking Stephen hawking and usain bolt on the same spectrum
especially not themselves

>we can use relative thinking and comparative judgement to
>classify, but competition is ego

ego is needed in society point blank
inflated versions maybe not but ego is part of our natural state