If there were only two kinds of people in the world, what would the be?

Question

I think its cowards and courageous. I think all decisions and actions can be rationalized in those categories. Am I right?

Answer 1

The light and the dark.

Now, this is not good and evil, because people who walk in darkness can be good people and people who walk in light can be, well, wretchedly evil. I've noticed that people tend to group themselves off by darkness and light. When you see two people together who seem to be decidedly different but hitting it off anyway, it's a good bet that they have in common the darkness or the light.

Answer 2

Your question is not a supposition, but a reality. And you are also right in classifying people.

Yes, there are, in reality, two kinds of people: a few people grow very gradually -- step by step they go; they go in a very calculated way -- they are cowards, and there are a few other people who simply take a jump, a plunge. They don't go slowly, they don't go gradually, they don't go calculatingly. These are the gamblers, they are not business-like: they risk. They are the really courageous people.

And who wouldn't wish to be courageous, even though one is inwardly cowardly.

Let me also discuss what kind of people society needs - the society, of course, needs only heads and hands. That's why the society is divided into two kinds of people: the heads -- the people who work with their heads, the so-called intelligentsia -- and the hands, the people who are laborers. The society does not believe in the heart because the heart has no utilitarian purpose. You cannot produce commodities out of the heart; you cannot make people rich; you cannot create bigger houses, sophisticated machines; you cannot reach the moon. So what is the purpose of it? Its purpose is totally different: it is non-utilitarian. It brings joy, but joy the society is not interested in. The society wants people who are efficient robots. A joyful person is not a robot. The society does not want you to be loving; it wants you to be calculating.
A lover is never a calculator; he is always risking. He is not a good businessman. He lives in a totally different world; he sees things from a different perspective. For him flowers are far more important than all your scientific gadgets, stars are far more important than all your political ideologies, rivers and mountains are far more significant than all your churches and temples.

And now tell me, what type would you wish to be?

Answer 3

Men and women :P

We are yet to have a subjective adjective which can accurately classify the entire population, other than something at a species level (such as "human" which divides into male and female).

Answer 4

ha! this was an essay question in one of my english classes, and the responses were great. I agree with you, only because my response was very similar to yours but I worded it differently. of course, it is easier to back up that statement with facts in an essay and easier to refute an unsupported one line statement, so others might be more inclined to disagree with you.

Answer 5

not quite. what about the thinkers? they must decide who is a coward and who is courageous.

Answer 6

Atheists and Theists.

Answer 7

I would say leaders and followers.

Answer 8

leaders and followers

Answer 9

The decent...and the indecent.
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Answer 10

people who like elvis and people who like the beatles.

you can like both, but not equally. you like one more than the other.