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Well, I believe that we're essentially similar (not sure if we're the same). However, the bigger impact on outcome is through action based on variables in situations and environments. That's how you get variances between people; for example, you get people like Plan9, who are both more well-read and actually useful in society compared to people like me, who simply squander their potential.
If there truly is an essential variance between people, I refuse to believe that it plays a major role in who we are. It's not like white people are essentially better than everyone else.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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