In the name of equality or egalitarinism, practioners of “left-wing” values justify all their actions.
Ok, so what is equality?
We are all born unequal, from a competitive point of few. That is, some are born beautiful and/or smart and/or strong and/or tall, all of which confers varying degrees of advantage. Then, of course theres varying degrees of sexual endowment, no small “inequality” if you will pardon the pun.
So when people whine about “inequality”, should their complaint be filed with the government, or God?
Its by a captilist or competitive market place where people can make-up for inequalities with their own hard world. Would Billy Joel be swimming in hot ***** if not for the market reward his music product gave him?
Ironically, left-wing systems that seek to supress or dismantle the free market system in the name of “equality” achieve just the opposite, unless such systems instituted cloning, so that all would eventually look the same.
tehabwa:
You miss the point.
I am not arguing the necessity of laws that have been catageroized as “equal opportunity”. They are practical and certainly not the domain of the left. In fact, they historically belong to the republicans.
The left does broadly justify everything they do under the vague idea of “equality”. Thus, it would be useful to understand what this really is and if it can exist or does exist.
Indeed, I do think the left misplaces their general angst about cosmic unfairness upon those who advocate the most practical solutions.
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Dribble. In the eyes of the government everyone is equal – it’s people who don’t understand how the system was designed to work who blabber such garbage.
We’re not all equal in effect. We have different talents, abilities, aptitudes, potential, etc. But we are equal in essence, in terms of our innate value. If that isn’t true… then ****** was right. Those with greatest value have the right to dictate to those with less value. And Democracy is a farce.
Equality is
1. When real conservatives can have a political party without neocon crooks waving the US flag ang Bible for them
2. When real conservatives can afford a US car without Chinese blood stain on it
3. When Americans wave the US flag instead of the Mexican or Israel flag inside the USA
4. When the US President is not a retarded Idiot
I think there are two different ideas about equality. I agree that we are born with different plates of choices.
This is where the paths part. Liberals believe that equality means the government should level the playing field, so everyone has the same.
Conservatives believe that government only makes things worse, by denying the power of the individual to level his own playing field. Of course, there are exceptions, and conservatives do not let children, the elderly, or the disabled starve.
We all bleed,RED
Equal in our value as human beings.
You are confusing different senses of the term.
The left isn’t whining about the obvious fact that people aren’t all equally smart or musically talented.
Equal rights and equality under the law have nothing to do with this.
Nor does equal opportunity.
Equal opportunity doesn’t mean let morons do science, it means that scientists (for example) should be hired based on their abilities, not on irrelevant facts about them (what continent their ancestors were born on, whether their ********* are internal or external, etc.).
Equal rights means, for example, some people are not property to be owned by other people, all people should be free to make their own decisions and live their own lives.
Thus, no slavery, no subjugation of women.
Currently, some people are not allowed to marry, for instance. That’s just wrong. If two people want to marry, assuming they’re of age, they should get to marry.
Children should not be educated based on their parents’ income. The way to get the best out of everyone, and get the most talented doing the things they’re talented at, is for all children to have equal (preferably high quality) educational opportunities.
Girls shouldn’t be told their only choices are homemaker, teacher, or nurse.
Equal treatment under the law means you don’t get pulled over, harassed, and searched because of the color of your skin, but only for probable cause.
Why do you have a problem with this?
It’s only fair.
Equality is a social state of affairs in which certain different people have the same status in a certain respect.There are different forms of equality, depending on the persons and social situations in question.
In mathematics, two mathematical objects are considered equal if they are precisely the same in every way.This defines a binary predicate, equality, denoted “=”; x = y iff x and y are equal. Equivalence in the general sense is provided by the construction of a equivalence relation between two elements.A statement that two expressions denote equal quantities is an equation.