Of course not.<p>Shuffle a deck of cards. If you did it properly, the new arrangement is unique. No deck of cards has ever been arranged like that before, and none will ever again, unless you deliberately preserve it.<p>I just drew a scribble on a post-it note. Nobody else has a scribble quite like it, or ever will again, after I throw it away.<p>Every time a snowflake melts, something beautiful and unique is lost forever.<p>None of these things are special, unless you&#x27;re using a really weird meaning of &quot;special&quot;.<p>You can say that they might be unique, but they&#x27;re sufficiently similar to other things that they might as well not be - but what distance metric are you using? You&#x27;re using one shaped by your own values, which say that one human is special even in the presence of another seven billion humans, but that one snowflake is unimportant in the presence of another seven billion.<p>It <i>might</i> be that rareness is a prerequisite of specialness. It&#x27;s not the only factor.