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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 8918119" data-attributes="member: 6790260">...but it is the details that matter here.Like...I completely grant that in terms of grand, universal stuff, human psychology has patterns. I never said or implied otherwise.But when it comes to the actual details of how things should be done, we literally have all of human history to show how much humans don't think perfectly alike. Ethics. Political philosophy. Economics. Art. Literature. Theater. There are people who think Slaughterhouse-Five is an amazing book, for goodness' sake. Einstein was simultaneously one of the founders of quantum mechanics (he described and properly developed the photoelectric effect, IIRC the first properly quantum physical theory) and one of its greatest critics ("God does not play dice" etc.)The fact that we do share so much and yet disagree over the details makes things worse, not better. It's like the uncanny valley effect: up to a certain point, more shared thoughts and beliefs are good, constructive, make it easier to communicate. But it takes a nosedive at some high percentage and only climbs back up as you get extremely close to perfect agreement. If we genuinely didn't agree on some of the basics, we'd discover that very quickly, and it would lead to more communication (or, I suppose, terminating the relationship, but I prefer to think more positively.) But when you agree on a great deal of things and then run into trouble only with the fine details, it's much more cumbersome because you've now got to question everything you used to assume, and you're extremely likely to miss something or forget or think you've got it covered when you don't.We all have a common human perception of existence. But if you speak about "football" in a room of native English speakers, man oh man, there are some real conflicts that can arise. Even when everyone in question actually knows which game you're talking about.Or, if you want something more pithy...[MEDIA=youtube]2ZksQd2fC6Y[/MEDIA]</blockquote>

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