It is hypothesized that human beings, as highly unique and individualized creatures, will still have many similarities in many fields. Diversity and homogenity are usually in balance with humans, and even the most polar opposite of individuals can find common ground. This balance, however, is interrupted and the common ground destroyed in one realm: pizza toppings.
Simply put, it seems significantly more difficult to get a room full of people to agree on pizza toppings. While one person appreciates pineapple and Canadian Bacon, someone else likes Chicken and Barbecue Sauce. Still another enjoys Pepperoni and Mushrooms, but the woman in the back likes Supreme, hold the onions.
And, of course, that doofus in the back that nobody can remember inviting to the party simply insists, without rationale, that he must take his pizza with anchovies.
Of course, as the number of individual pizza-orderers increases, the probability that two or more will share a common standard pizza-topping load-out will increase, Obviously, as we increase the sample size of individuals under scrutiny to encompass every potential pizza-eater on Earth (every human being, over 6 Billion people), there will obviously be many large groups of preferred pizza styles, probably one of the largest of which will be “pepperoni”. However, the exercise here is not to categorize, but to show to all that even though our uniqueness in pizza toppings follows similar lines, we are still incredibly diverse. Therefore, we should also postulate that increasing the number of minimum toppings per individual pizza style will eventually once again ensure that no single human being on the planet desires the same X number of pizza toppings. In other words, forcing individuals to choose a certain number of toppings, as a minimum, will ensure that each preferred pizza “load-out” corresponds to each individual human being on the planet with no duplicates, and will eventually lead to a sort of unique identifier by way of pizza toppings. One can even further ensure the uniqueness of pizza topping load-outs by forcing an ordered prioritization to the list, meaning that the first topping listed by a person is the most preferred topping. It could further be extrapolated that this unique identifier, tied to each individual, and existing with little to no chance of duplication, could replace social security numbers or other systems of unique identification.
This system, for lack of a better term, is called Six Degrees of Canadian Bacon.
As the variety of pizza toppings at your average pizzeria grows, and as individual human beings learn to celebrate, and tolerate, diversity amongst others of different creeds, classes, races, orientations, ages and ethnicities, this one difference remains and threatens to divide us as a species, to shatter hundreds of years of progress towards our hard-won equality that only the celebration of our joyous uniqueness has lead us to.
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