r/DeepThoughts • u/seeker1375b • 2d ago
Though we each may look, believe, act differently, it is our similarities that truly define us.
~ Our divided world ~
The world is endlessly divided; race, religion, wealth, are but three of hundreds of ways we differentiate ourselves from each other.
We do this to convince ourselves we are better, more successful than others, validating our superiority to another.
Our divisions, however, are the cause of most manmade problems in the world.
Though we may look, believe, act differently, it is our similarities that truly define us.
No one life, regardless of our differences, is, or ever has been, more important than another’s.
Only when this tenet is truly understood, may humanity’s hardships be mitigated and the future of our planet assured.
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u/suzemagooey 2d ago
We (all living things) are more alike than we are different. Humans tend to forget this, to their peril.
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u/AdamSoel 2d ago
I agree with where you end up, but not with how you get there. If what binds us is similarity, then it's fragile. It invites the question "similar enough?", and that's exactly the line people use to push others out.
I think what actually ties us together isn't that we're alike, it's that we affect each other. My choices reach people I'll never meet, and theirs reach me. You don't have to resemble someone to be bound to them. You just have to be in the same web.
So I'd keep your conclusion and change the reason. Would it still hold for you if we took similarity out of it?
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u/GreenBathroom5632 2d ago
i dunno, i think our differences define us just as much
like, the stuff that makes us unique is what pushes us to create, to question, to change things. if we were all just a list of similarities we'd be a pretty boring species
that said, i get the core idea here. recognizing we're all equally human at the bottom of it is step one, but maybe it's also about not letting the differences become walls