Having One Small War At A Time, Or Just Leaving The Room

WE ARE UNITED by sentiment, sundered by opinion, said Goethe, but beyond that, we are sundered by race and religion, above nearly all else. One possiblility for corrective action might be to simply stay away from people you can't get along with. A separation of humans, based on such considerations as religion, race, gender, etc. For example, we could, each time we enter a room in which there is another person, compare skin pigmentation. Hold forearm right next to another's. If they aren't the same color, leave the room. You'll notice, predictably, that most of the time its a pretty close match, but that the two forearms are never exactly the same color. Never. Always a different skin pigment, at least slightly, everyone. You'll be leaving a lot of rooms, spendng a lot of time alone. We all will. Our lives will be far lonelier, but far less contentious. Aristole started this whole mess, when he asserted that a systematic organization of knowledge, categorization, was the foundation to enhanced knowledge of the world, and wisdom. Placing knowledgde in categories enables us to better grasp the monstrous complexity of the universe a bit better, but it also deceives us into accepting a far simpler verson of reality than is warrenated by the fact that existence adheres not in categories, but in a seemingly infinite number of unique facts. That's all well and good, until it causes people to create a handful of "races", based on a human characteristic which is just as indivudually unique as, say, personality. Hell, even cats all have different personalities. So do humans. Humans have a different everything, different from each other, including skin color and religion. If we're going to have race wars, or religious wars, at least we could be honest enough to have them on an individual basis, one small war at a time. En garde!