To translate BIP’s annoyingly long paragraphs; YOU SLAY QUEEN

It provides no actual guidelines, it represents no ideal. It is the artificial definition of ice-cream, a way to sort between what is, and what isn't ice-cream (legally speaking).

Such are all of the standards which we use to define our world.
Bland, tasteless (in the case of food standards, often literally) and soulless.

To be the standard is not a compliment, it is not a positive thing. It is mockery.
You think your profile represents THE standard?

I tend to agree. (3/3)

Most of the time, these descriptions do not even match our expectations of what the "thing" described should even be, for human definitions are fluid, transitory and subjective.

Standards, on the other hand, are by their very nature codified and rigid.

For the sake of the argument, let's say you wanted to make a cold dessert according to the ice-cream standard set by the U.S department of agriculture, such that you could end up marketing it as an ice-cream product in the domestic U.S market.

If you were to follow the 'directions' set by the standard, the resulting product would be nothing but a bland mix of milk, fat and air.

The standard does not require for the end product to have any taste beyond it's 3 base ingredients. Taste is merely an option, it's mention only codified into the law such that manufacturers do not pump their product full of artificial flavorings. (2/3)

Taken at face value, your reasoning is sound, solid and coherent - like a block of steel.
And as a block of steel sinks in water, so does your argument when tossed in the vast ocean of ideas.

You attempted to convey the sentiment that standards are an ideal, an end goal or general outline one should strive to achieve.
Reality contradicts that premise.

As much as we use the word 'standard' to refer to a sort of ideal in common, everyday language, it is not how it is actually used in practical terms.

Standards are used to define the baseline, the bare minimum - laws and regulations by which we judge the things and people around us.
Hardly ideal, or even good.

To illustrate my point - think of the way food is standardized.
Boring, monotonous, highly descriptive yet lifeless paragraphs that go on and on about the most trivial of things. (1/3)

To resort to the words and sentences being spewed by a machine which does not know reason is a mockery to nature itself. Let alone a meagre, bland steam profile.

We use standards to help us judge, compare and contrast.

To BE the standard by which we use to do these things implies a lack of personality; A 'thing' (should you even refer to it as such) which lacks the human touch and creativity we all crave in art.

We USE standards, but we shouldn't aspire to be them.