Are you a lumper or a splitter?

[Whateverist]

Interesting poll. I voted splitter. I think as a general rule, you can learn more about anything specific if you pay attention to small differences and split them up, vs having a more broad view and lumping everything together into the same big group and leaving it that way.

Differences are important too though I'm definitely a lumper on this one.  Recognizing intractable differences helps with tolerance with people with a different bent than our own (even freaking believers like you and conserva-***** like Brewer ).  But humans have this propensity to live in the abstract reasoning lobes and pay too little attention to our animal nature.  That sets us up for unreasonable expectations and can interfere with satisfaction in life.  (Have you tried drugs and porn?  Could help.)

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There are only two kinds of people:  Real human beings and republicunts.

You're as intolerant as an ex-smoker.  Anyone would think you started out life as cunty-tarded republican conservo-nazi and then saw the light.

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Since evolutionary radiation seems to make more sense (as far as morphological differences are concerned), I'd have to put myself in the splitter camp. 

That being said, I didn't answer the poll - the choices make no sense. Human are indeed animals, but we are also unique: gorillas and shrews are both animals, but they're unique enough that we have no trouble telling them apart. 

Boru

Yes but we have a lot more in common with mammals than with computers.

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And three types of mathematician: those who can count, and those who can't.

Hmmm .. so type 2?