Based on this thread: The 10 tattoos that annoy me the most
It seems like there are a number of polarizing issues where there are the ‘cool’ and the ‘uncool’, but the other side sees it as the ‘sheep’ vs. ‘the unique thinkers’.
I personally feel that there are SO MANY PEOPLE in the world, that it is truely impossible to be a unique snowflake.
If you are snobbishly looking down your nose at the ‘unwashed’ I suggest you take a look at your own situation with the same critical eye.
Know how you catch a unique snowflake? 
You’re asking people to set aside all that they know and to embrace something totally different from what they consider themselves to be. That’s a lot to ask. Historically society brutalizes people who make those kinds of requests. Then, ironically, we worship them as visionaries. Posthumously.
I’m just wondering how big a population of Dopers there are out there? Presumably there’s a ignorance fighting group of people in Tibet and another in Kazakhstan, and another in South Africa.
We aren’t special. Not really. 
…an ignorance**-**fighting group…
Grammar Nazi. You’re all alike to me. 
I’ve seen it from both extremes. I get annoyed by people who look down on “the masses”, not realizing that they are just as sheepish in their own (usually more expensive) ways. On the other hand, the idea that no one has anything unique to contribute is obviously wrong: we’re increasing our combined knowledge daily, and those ideas come from people.
Snobbery of any sort makes me want to barf, but I’m sure I’m not quite free of it myself.
I don’t see how feeling yourself unique in some way or another is anything snobbish. Holding that over people or dismissing people because they aren’t like you, is. That’s not the same thing as merely feeling unique.
And I’m romantic enough to feel we are all unique to a lesser or greater degree, despite the commonality (negative and positive) we all share with our fellow earth-people, no matter how numerous we happen to be.
My 3rd grade teacher told me I’m a unique and beautiful snowflake, and I know my 3rd grade teacher would never lie to me.
I’m special and unique, just like everybody else.
you are not a beautiful and unique snowflake
you are the same decaying organic matter as everything else
we are all a part of the same compost heap
we are the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world
you have to realise that someday you will die,
until you know that you are useless
i say let me never be complete
i say may i never be content
You may be unique (there is only one of ‘you’) but very few people are ‘special’ (have some talent or ability that really makes them stand out from the crowd).
Just be yourself and let everyone else be themselves too. With 6.7 billion people on this world, chances are that anything you consider to be special about yourself puts you in a bigger group of people than you might imagine 
No one of my traits is unique, but the specific combination of all of them is. Therefore, I am a unique snowflake. And so are you! 
I find it helps to keep my ego in check to realize that, yeah, there are two or three traits in which I’m better than the average bear…but in each of those traits, there’s someone out there that’s much better than I…further, there are PLENTY of areas where people have more expertise than I do.
It helps to keep that in mind when going after people for things you think are stupid or don’t approve of. (Like the aforementioned tattoo thread)
You left out all talking! We’re the cast of a poorly staged early musical film, showing off our heavy thighs and pigeon toes in chorus line and declaiming worn-out jokes into the potted plant in the center of the shot. I like it.
Note the subtext implied by the pronouns:
May I never be content until you know that you are useless. :dubious: All rrrrrighty then.
Seriously, I’d rather blend in. Then people don’t kick your ass as much.
I’m pretty average as it is, so I guess it works out.
You neek up on it.
d&r
Dude, that is a total Dad Joke!!
Exactitudes made quite an impression on me when I first saw it. Which group of unique do you fit into?
Well, I think everyone is actually pretty unique. That’s the beauty of diversity. We can all be different and contribute different points of view borne of different experiences, and we can pool all of our resources into one coherent whole, a world that knows the universality of suffering, and of love. That is why I love the Dope and why I love the world.
[grumpy gus] I’ve never understood what that project is trying to say…that we all buy clothes from the same 10 Chinese sweatshops? That there are only so many ways to style hair? That if you take gazillions of pictures, you can group them into twelves? [/gg]