One Size Fits All

Do you remember Tube Socks -- the one size fits all athletic socks that actually fit no one very well?  For some reason I got to thinking about that phrase the other day and I would like to think with you about it.

Do you ever wish that every doctor was the same as every other doctor -- especially the same as the very best "other doctor"?  Or that every computer geek could do what every other computer geek could do?  Or that every politician was like every other politician (hmmm -- can't think of that good example for the rest to follow?  I understand.)

Guys -- do you wish every girl looked like every supermodel, and that you and all other guys had the six-pack abs that are supposed to represent fantastic virility?

Well, maybe we can make that all happen.  With the new cloning procedures we just need to choose the two, or ten, or thirty "best" models of humanity and clone them.  With luck we will all dress alike, saving on dyes and textiles and putting fashion gurus out of work.  Models, too.  We could all be models, just wearing what we all would prefer.  We would all do the same as school.  No more grading on the curve, right?

We would all get the same diseases at the same age, take the same time getting over them, or. . .

We would all succumb to the same virus, and humanity would end up extinct.

Hmmm.  Maybe there are some benefits to diversity.

What do you think?  Leave a comment and let us know.