Social Tip #203 - Some Are Greater Than Their WholeEvery person is unique, and that's what makes you special. Unless you are twins.
Then you are special, but only for being a creepy, creepy twin.
Identical twins are freaks who make everybody uncomfortable, here is the math to prove it:
Where
U is Uniqueness, each person's Uniqueness is valued at one,
U = 1
But Twins,
T, are not people, they are creepy people that exist as one person, sharing one Uniqueness,
T = U
Each set of Twins is by definition made up of two partial people, let's call them "twindividuals" (twins
a and
b), where each twindividual apart from each other is
t,
T = t(a) + t(b)
Or,
T = 2t
Thus, each
t is worth half a Person, and is valued at half Uniqueness,
t(a) = T/2 = U/2 = 1/2
Twinness has its own individual Uniqueness, and bears the Uniqueness value of one.
T(a), Twin A in the company of Twin B, bears the uniqueness of itself, and shares half the uniqueness of
T with Twin B,
T(b).T(a) = t(a) + T(b)/2
T(b) = t(b) + T(a)/2
As such, their combined value is two unique people,
T(a) + T(b) = 2U
Therefore, they are worth four times as much together as they are apart. That's defies the laws of nature! It does explain their insistence on making everyone uncomfortable by hanging out together, I would defy the laws of nature if I could, too.
Twins = Freaks!
