The spicy flavour of food actually comes from pain sensors on our taste buds. Yet many people season blander foods with spices in order to enhance their flavour. Since variety is the spice of life, variety must be pain in our life while also making it more enjoyable.
Variety breeds large amounts of pain in our lives. Differences in thought cause arguments which then grow into global wars between countries and nations. Different foods and tastes may appeal to different people. Although variety induces pain and suffering, it also propogates innovation and progress, which in turn augment the prosperity of any given group of people. Animals cannot think at the level of people, so while different species remain the same and eventually die out because of changes in their environment, humans adapt and invent to ease our lives without the aid of claws, wings, or fangs. However, all this innovation is only possible with the presence of natural variety. If there were no variety, everyone would agree all the time and like to do the same things, and a utopian civilization might even be feasible. Unfortunately, all progress would come to an abrupt halt as well, and we would probably live our lives like lower animals without differences in choice and opinion.
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the reason people develop different opinions is because they are filled with different biases as a child, as their culture aims to preserve itself. this has everything to do with food to the way we sleep to "I hate that Hutu! Let's go to war" (in Rwanda). We could achieve similarity of mind if we were all taught the same, hopefully proven (scientific), facts. Variety in food and that stuff is fine and beneficial, but people should be allowed to make their own, educated biases instead of letting other people tell them what to believe while they are still young, naive children (or even adults). And of course, since most people have the same hard-wiring in their brain, we would all choose the brightest, best biases (like, "Hey, maybe capitalism is better than fascism!"). Of course people would still prefer different foods and that stuff (hopefully, after being informed of the poisonous qualities of fast food, people wouldn't choose french fries as their favorite)
On the minus side, if you teach everyone exactly the same values and ideas, you'll end up with a situation like Brave New World.
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