If everyone was like you would the world be a better place?

Definitely not better. Everyone would be eating unhealthily, have fun while doing it then regret it until the next delicious yet unhealthy meal. LOL

There would be no no trips to the moon, no modern cities with great architecture just a dark and nasty version of Tolkien’s the Shire with absolutely no plumbing, no waste collection system and no pretty vegetable gardens.

I like to think so, yes. lol
I am very easy going, rarely get pissy about things, good natured, creative, am self aware, don’t take things personally, have a great sense of humor and believe in a leisurely lifestyle.
I am diplomatic, funny and always up for some silliness. God knows the world needs more good natured and humorous types. haha

Ok I wouldn’t mind half of the world’s people like me and half like @Coloma…LOL

@mazingerz88 Too bad I am old enough to be yo mama, we could have started a breeding program. lolol

The world would be a more inebriated and snarky place.

No. Diversity is valuable for many reasons (educationally, evolutionarily, etc.). If we were all the same—no matter who we were all like—we would lose all of these benefits (and for nothing but the ability to figure out what pisses us off most about ourselves).

It would probably go to shit pretty fast. On the upside, there probably wouldn’t be any war. But kind of pointless because we’d all die from famine anyway.
(Worse brown black thumb ever.)

And if we’re all the same gender, there’s the whole issue of reproduction too.

I agree with @SavoirFaire, but I’ll play along:

That’s a thought I used to have when I was in school. I was frequently the kid waiting for everyone to settle down. In a school setting, I think many people like me would work out well. I’m quiet, but I love to learn, and I am easily motivated.

I would not want everyone to be like me, otherwise. One self is enough to get on my nerves.

That’s a chilling nightmare of a concept, and I shudder at the thought of it. In fact, I couldn’t possibly coexist in such a place.

Every one is like me. We are mostly human and aliens here.

Also vampires.

It would be better because I am honest to a fault.

I think it would, but I’m a bit biased.

What do think if the world is full of people who don’t want argument, don’t rely on body language to communicate, hopeless at math, full of ambition and have some sense of humor?

You decide.

I have to go with better.

I’m optimistic. Most people are non-bad, by nature.

GQ

Oh God,NO!
Probably end up pissing off someone just like me,and we would end up killing each other.

No, I don’t always get on with myself. Sometimes we stop talking to each other.

Vive la difference! The world could not be a happy place if all people were the same. We would hate each other for knowing everybody’s next move, next thought.
Maybe just some, say a tenth of the women.
Still, if all the men were alike, and all the women were alike, there would be no infidelity at all! You would know the next would be just like the last.
Now, if all the women were just like me, and all the men were gay, then population would be under control, and men would have to go against their inclinations just once or twice each.
If all people were like me, then populating would be a problem for certain, because we would all be women.
I’m sticking with, VIVE LA DIFFERENCE!

On the other hand, if everyone in the world was just like me, I would either be a hermit or dead. Boredom or my own hand, call it.

I’m just advocating good personalities and humor, otherwise, do your own thing.
The world could seriously benefit from good natured types free of extreme neurotic issues, gossip, passive aggressive crap, foul tempered, petty bullshit collectors. haha

Actually I disagree with many of the responses here. Harmony with others similar to yourself is what creates happiness and peace. The latter doesn’t have to mean carbon copies of yourself, but similarity on things that are the most important to yourself. This also means you won’t be singled out. Seriously, how many times do you hear people complain they feel they don’t fit in, feel they’re singled out or that they can’t stand to be around him/her/them because of how they think and behave? One only has to look around fluther to see my points here, let alone the world offline.

Looking at the state of humanity in the past and present maybe the idea of segregating and dividing people according to the types of cultures they would want to live in is a better idea than intertwining people of different tastes. The latter idea just puts more fuel on the fire in my opinion, and on top of that I highly doubt it when many claim to appreciate the thoughts of those who think differently than themselves, especially on those trigger issues that most of us have.

I can only answer this question with another subjective view on what I think would make the world a ‘better’ place. People would have freedom of, and freedom from practicing religion. Religion would not be a part of any political process. People would be able to power their own homes off of the grid. Gender roles would come to an end. People would have the freedom to grow weed and other psychoactive plants/fungi on their property, and property taxes would come to an end. Why should you lose your property after you already had paid for it?

I would also try to tackle many social problems and crime via a backdoor method. Instead of looking for scapegoats and tackling crime head on I’d be more concerned with changing the foundation of what really creates most of these problems to begin with. I believe that things such as gender roles, economical fairness, lack of work ethic and confidence being emphasized over empathy, humility and intelligence are the root causes of most of the world’s ills. Problems like drugs, conflicts, wars, violence, animal cruelty, neglect of children, violence against women, etc are merely byproducts of the issues I’d want to tackle in my opinion. Now would everyone want to live in my world or be like me? Something tells me no, just like I would never want to be like many others, or live in their world.

@Paradox25 Well come out to the ranch here kiddo.
I swear, this world needs to thin the herd by about 5 billion and everyone should live on a minimum of a 5 acre parcel for optimum peace and mental health. lol

@Coloma

Certainly you yourself are not among that 5 billion that needs to be thinned, right?

@Darth_Algar Haha…somehow I knew that was coming.
Hey, I’d sacrifice myself for someone equally awesome, I’ve had a good run and think my contributions to a better world have had some impact. Bring on the younger upstarts, my ego is cool with death. ;-)

@Paradox25 You’re right, I wouldn’t want to live in your world, and you almost certainly wouldn’t want to live in mine. But surely happiness and peace aren’t such lofty goals, that we should be willing to sacrifice the heterogeneity of society to attain them? How would a society progress, if it weren’t for the exchange of ideas between different individuals, and different schools of thought? How would we develop tolerance, or an appreciation of beauty, if all ideas were similar to our own from the outset?

@Paradox25 I think you’re changing the question. I don’t think “like you” was supposed to mean just “similar to you.” And even if we read it that way, harmony doesn’t require similarity. It just requires a certain willingness to get along despite differences.

Also, think about how many relationships work because the people involved complement one another. My partner and I work so well together because we are different. She balances me, and I’d be way less happy with someone who just reinforced all of my habits.

But I guess you really only answered so you could go off-topic with your little utopian vision.

By all means.

I don’t want people to be ‘like’ me as in a carbon copy of me, but I’d prefer it if some had more of my traits. I thought about this today because of some recent experiences and observing the experience of others who work with different people.

I consider how my actions affect other people. If I don’t do my work in a reasonably timely way, I affect others. If I ignore the emails and requests of those who are reliant on me, I let them down. They can’t achieve their goals without my guidance and support, so it’s important I take that role seriously. So many of my peers do not do this and frankly, they aren’t pushed to do so either.

So, I think the world would be better if people just considered how they affect others as they go about their daily lives and that cuts across so many realms in life. It relates to family, work, the environment and the local and broader community. I do this. It’s why my to-do list is horrendous. It’s just part of who I am and how I operate.

@Paradox25 I’m not sure I did create a straw man. You said “Harmony with others similar to yourself is what creates happiness and peace. The latter doesn’t have to mean carbon copies of yourself, but similarity on things that are the most important to yourself.” My response to that specific point was “But surely happiness and peace aren’t such lofty goals, that we should be willing to sacrifice the heterogeneity of society to attain them?” There are differences between individuals in a group, and there are differences between groups. You seem to advocate differences between individuals, where they agree on the main points. You’re probably right that that is a recipe for peace and harmony.

But I believe some of the greatest changes we have undergone as humans have come from wildly different ideas, that may not have occurred if people agreed on the fundamentals. Think of William Wilberforce and the anti-slavery movement. That was a disagreement on a fundamental point, where he stood nearly alone against society until the movement gathered momentum. Most people had simply never questioned the practice.

I actually really liked your original answer, and most of your points I agree with. I’m sure if we were to meet, we’d get along fine. I particularly liked the point regarding segregating cultures rather than intertwining. That is one of the reasons I admire aspects of Putin’s leadership, since he advocates a globalised world where each country still caters primarily to the needs of their primary cultural group.

But I still wouldn’t want to live in your world, because of your opinions on gender roles and crime. And you probably wouldn’t want to live in mine, because of my opinions on those issues, amongst others. This probably isn’t the place to expand on my reasons why, since this is already a lengthy post. Suffice to say that I believe people can still get along amicably despite deep differences, if they are open to dialogue. It is the inability to entertain the idea of compromise that causes much of the conflict in the world. There is a good reason why, in much of the Western world, Christians and atheists live together quite peacefully, and only occasionally exchange harsh words, while in certain countries people slaughter each other over relatively minor differences within a single religion. That said, I really don’t value peace enough to compromise on certain important issues. There is a line that is not to be crossed in working through our differences as people.