Why are human beings so different from each other? Considering the common genetic and biological inheritance which makes us one species, you would expect human beings to fall into a behavior pattern better defined than seems to be the case.
If you take any other species on the Planet and put members of that species into an identical situation, you expect them to react similarly to each other, with some minor variations.
Yet, human beings react to the same stimuli often in a diagonally opposite way: love and hate, pleasure and disgust, enthusiasm and fear, joyful acceptance and vehement rejection.
I know a lot of it is cultural, but it manifests itself even among people with similar cultural background.
Babble is full of examples.
I know, individual upbringing, personal experiences, ‘temperament’ both physical and mental strengths and weaknesses have a lot to do with it.
Yet, I am always surprised when I witness different people’s often violently opposite reaction to the exact same thought or idea.
Are we just too complex to be predictable? Has nature overcomplicated our 'design'? Is it some kind of Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle operating in the macro-world?
Just curious. Suggestions?