If every human being is infinitely different from one other, how is it possible to ever agree?
We’re different and we’re the same: the specifics differ infinitely, but the generics are universal… i.e. everyone has pretty much the same biological structures, but the details of appearance are unique. Everyone has the same basic psychological structures, but the details of individual personality are unique, and so forth. In either case, this has little to do with what enables us to agree: except that we all have at least some capacity to conceptualize and form conceptual structures, and because those concepts are at least partially based on objective reality, there is a high degree of commonality. Also, most of our beliefs are not self-originated, they’re absorbed from culture and family, which means they’re shared with a large number of people before we even hear about them.
All human beings are different from one another, but not to such a degree that we aren’t also similar to one another. For each person there are ever widening circles of similarity: there are those people we share quite a few things in common, and then those we share only some things in common, and then those we share no more in common with than our mere humanity, but even that is something shared. It’s on this shared ground that we’re able to agree.
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