Originally Posted by NormalCitizen
Self control issues, brain disorders, teenage rebellion due to (or not due to) pop culture, curiosity, clinical depression, boredom, laziness, first world brat disorder, peer pressure, addiction (due to all of the above), self loathing, and bets.
Just to name a few causes of why those things can happen.
Of course these are all possibilities and actual reasons, but there are also just idiots and those who simply say because i wanted to. The point of that statement wasn't trying to figure out why these things happen though, but to point out that humans are not very logical nor predictable by nature. Not to mention that there are too many variables for any two people to truly be alike, depending on how much the small differences mean in each persons opinion.
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Um, I almost don't want to get into this one...
I am unique because I have chosen to be. I am similar because I have chosen to be. I don't remember making these choices but I did make them at some point in my life. I have friends and we enjoy the same things, though I am an oddity in my local community as a whole. These are social choices that we make growing up, even if some are made for us. The coolest thing about being human though, we can change if we want to.
To sum up; we are a reflection of our choices, which can really only be evaluated by our environment. For example, I am not the 'same person' here that I am at work and they are both different from when I am at work even though I still operate as me.
I am unique because I have chosen to be. I am similar because I have chosen to be. I don't remember making these choices but I did make them at some point in my life. I have friends and we enjoy the same things, though I am an oddity in my local community as a whole. These are social choices that we make growing up, even if some are made for us. The coolest thing about being human though, we can change if we want to.
To sum up; we are a reflection of our choices, which can really only be evaluated by our environment. For example, I am not the 'same person' here that I am at work and they are both different from when I am at work even though I still operate as me.
For the most part, I agree with a lot of what has been said. But I've been wondering further as well:
What distinguishes us as a person at one point in time in comparison to another?
For example, you are who you are right now. Your thoughts, feelings, personality, perceptions, the atoms in your body, and intellect are all what makes you, you. But in twenty years many of these things will be changed. What if in twenty years, you're blind. Your personality could be different. The cells and atoms composing your body would have died and its offspring have taken their place (other than nervous cells, whatever). Would you still be the same person you are now?
What distinguishes us as a person at one point in time in comparison to another?
For example, you are who you are right now. Your thoughts, feelings, personality, perceptions, the atoms in your body, and intellect are all what makes you, you. But in twenty years many of these things will be changed. What if in twenty years, you're blind. Your personality could be different. The cells and atoms composing your body would have died and its offspring have taken their place (other than nervous cells, whatever). Would you still be the same person you are now?
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No, you wouldn't be, Ray. In fact, by the time you have finished reading this, you will no longer be the person you were before doing so, as more information will be inputted into your brain, thus altering what was initially there, as slight as it may be.
I suppose you can't exactly be a person until your personality no longer exists to be altered and can only be remembered. Or perhaps that is wrong. I don't know.
I suppose you can't exactly be a person until your personality no longer exists to be altered and can only be remembered. Or perhaps that is wrong. I don't know.
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