Unfortunately for the identitarians, the only functional difference between one human being and the next is what that person knows or understands, or does not know or understand, and consequently what that person is prepared to do, or not do, based on their peculiar understanding. And of that fairly trivial distinction, some unknown percentage is already accounted for, being a kind of understanding that is either extra-conscious, essentially innate, or both.
Yet the influence of the latter ought not be carelessly overstated. For to do so would deny that the capacity to grow, adapt, change, or increase understanding by way of accumulated experience is a cardinal human quality, giving the further lie to any claim of prospective status within social groups that fundamentally do not correspond to natural kinds.
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