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truecomedian's avatar

Can you number everyone on the planet from least to greatest?

Asked by truecomedian (3937points) December 5th, 2010

Or are we all equal.

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marinelife's avatar

I believe that we are all equal.

What would give us superiority?

Ancestry? bah, everyone has the same genetic material.

Wealth? Crap.

roundsquare's avatar

Neither. There isn’t a universal metric that can be used to do this. But some people are clearly worse than others (e.g. certain kinds of mass-murderers).

coffeenut's avatar

Yes you can….but it would be insanely hard if not imposable to compose a universal standard to go by, then knowing everything about everyone to be able to rank them

MyNewtBoobs's avatar

Nope. Once I get past the first billion, someone always comes in and interrupts me, making me loose my place, and I have to start all over again.

partyparty's avatar

We are most certainly all equal… well almost!

lucillelucillelucille's avatar

I just don’t have the time. ;)

Zyx's avatar

@truecomedian Hello old friend.

Once again you just don’t make any sense. Good and evil are subjective, if not relative altogether. Add to my previous statement that answering this question requires knowing the purpose of life and you know quite as well as I do that no one knows that.

Blondesjon's avatar

Yes we can.

Pedophiles on the bottom, Chuck Norris on the top, and the rest of us fall into place in the middle.

Zyx's avatar

@Blondesjon So what you’re saying is you want to be sandwiched between pedophiles and chuck norris. Ahhhh, this may be weak but it made me chuckle.

Coloma's avatar

We are all equal in heart, but, perhaps not in deed.
Hate the behavior not the person. ;-)

truecomedian's avatar

@Zyx
I make no sense. I’m better than you, and I’m poor, white trash. It was a simple question, Is Donald Trump equal to a “third world” chump that dies from flies and hunger soon after his aids stricken mother pushes him out. Just because it’s nearly impossible for us humans to figure out doesn’t mean that it’s not true.

kenmc's avatar

A person being better/worse than another isn’t any way to gauge the human race.

HungryGuy's avatar

We all have different strengths and abilities in different areas. Some of those differences are innate, such as physical strength, stamina, perhaps intelligence to some degree. And some of those differences are given or derived, such as education and wealth. You can’t number everyone objectively because there’s too many variables that make each of us different.

Zyx's avatar

@truecomedian Seriously though, I don’t even know what you’re trying to say anymore.

Also: where are your arguments?

wundayatta's avatar

We all have differences and comparisons are kind of beside the point. I.e., trying to rank people is a big waste of time. There are the people who are your friends or loved ones, there are people you know, and there are people you don’t know. You can have your preferences, and we all do. Other than that, ranking people is like playing with your own do-do.

Jeruba's avatar

You could do it by total body mass. There would be a lot of ties. You could break them with some other statistic, such as IQ, age, and number of dental fillings.

I saw a woman last night who I think would be in the top 1%.

tigress3681's avatar

Equal in what characteristics? We could say that everyone is overall equal but the truth is, some people are better at things than other people. You could list people in terms of IQ, of wealth, of health, of anything quantifiable that you like.

YARNLADY's avatar

Least what and greatest what? I could, but I would need a promise that I would be granted eternal life and you would provide a detailed definition.

roundsquare's avatar

@tigress3681 We could say that, but what reason do we have to believe it?

tigress3681's avatar

@roundsquare because numbers can be ordered any way you like, normally we choose things like ascending and descending.

roundsquare's avatar

@tigress3681 Sorry, should have been more clear. I meant to apply my question just to the “everyone is equal” part of your statement.

tigress3681's avatar

Ah, you caught the point! The original question is vague.

roundsquare's avatar

@tigress3681 Bah. And here I was hoping yo believed what you said so I could argue with you. Sadly, instead we are in full agreement. Whats the fun in that?

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