An apple is an apple?

Agreed. Agreed. Agreed. Apple is an apple is an apple. Rose is a rose is a rose. Leave it at that. Glory be ours then. Celebrate! It is monkeying of the mind to revel in such labeling and classifying that is uncalled for and unnecessary.

Have you ever bitten into an apple that looked good on the outside, but was or had rotten brown spots in the inside? Just as similar, have you bitten inside a good looking apple and found it crisp, sweet, and juicy?

Or have you found a worm in one?

Lol, okay nice analogy. But classifying and generalizing people unfortunately is a human thing. And amazingly we are taught to generalize or group.

Remember in elementary, when the teacher would ask you to put all the red things together? Or put all the books in one pile and the pencils in another?

These are things we have to live with, but how one generalizes is entirely a different issue.

Some people know this is wrong and by being proven wrong or shown the opposite of their believed classification they LEARN NOT to do so. They LEARN that this is wrong. And the LEARN to keep an open mind afterwards. Only THEN is EVERYONE happy and clever ;)

There is obviously wisdom in what you say but here is an application you might not have encountered before: I was raised in a European country where public education is of reasonably high standard. My wife, my children and I have recently moved to a tropical island where the people have adopted many appearances of western civilization without acquiring the cultural foundation of it ; as a result many social structures end up delivering the opposite of what they were designed for (the law promotes and defends crime, priests and parish workers defraud and oppress the poor, theft, lies, deception, adultery and drunkenness are considered macho proof of value and worthiness). In short everything appears to be upside down and mind you, we are well traveled ; we have lived in four different countries and have visited dozens of others. But here is my point: after having lived here for four years and having witnessed, confronted and opposed myriad of crimes and wrongdoings, I have come to accept that the lack of intelligent education is the root problem and I found much peace in thinking of the vast majority of the indigenous population as stupid or to be more accurate: idiotic. Now that word is used as an insult but it also describes the intellectual development of a person who lacks exposure to intellectual challenges thus failing to sufficiently grow intellectually. By European standards I am not particularly intelligent but I find people on this island to be incredibly stupid ; I don't say it aloud or mean it as an insult or as a racist remark but it seems much more healthy to me than getting angry at the locals all the time.

Wow ! I understand you man !

Is an apple an apple ? It depends on what tree the "Apple came from"

"Every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Therefore by their fruits you will know them."

(Talking about false prophets-The trees- and their people-The fruit )

Matthew 7:17-20

And yes It is stupid to tell others that they are stupid or arrogant !! "And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?" Matthew 7 : 3

Yes we humans are living barbarians consuming each other and other humans !

Such classification makes Clever? or happier ?? I dont really know ...!!

I agree with Thimmapa, it is a waste of time to dwell on labels. People use them to hurt others and people hurt others out of pain or ignorance. Any kind of absolute generalization can be a label, too- even this answer.

I think the bigger problem is allowing your mind to get wrapped up with these labels and carried off. They are really meaningless.

But Bro, we can't just tar everyone with the same brush!

And sometimes we have to brush with a fine-tooth comb to get rid of the lice!

BTW, an apple is a "Seb" to me. I speak Hindi :)

Coming back to your question, such classification doesn't make me clever or happy...just practical. No Offence to anyone!

You could easily say people are a virus to earth, we fit the characteristics of a virus.

Humans and viruses both descend from bacteria.

It is like those people who go to church and sit in a pew and call themselves Christians, but they don't behave like Christians when they are not in church. So we call them Christians just because they sit in a pew for an hour a week. It is like what Joyce Meyer says....I could sit in my garage all day, it won't make me a car.

Calling someone stupid is arrogant, calling someone arrogant isn't arrogant.

And by the way, we are viruses to the earth

Unfortunately, the reality is, that some people who post here are truly stupid