I’ve often wondered how there can be equality where there are double standards?
“Equality” is a French Revlution ideal and should be discarded.
Equality before God and before the Law are the American standard.
The current effort is to change independent people into dependent people. By regulation and indoctrination make us all wards of the state. Dumbed down to the lowest common denominator, we will all be equal.
“The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.” - Aristotle
Section VI.
By equality, in a democracy, is to be understood, equality of civil rights, and not of condition. Equality of rights necessarily produces inequality of possessions; because, by the laws of nature and of equality, every man has a right to use his faculties, in an honest way, and the fruits of his labour, thus acquired, are his own. But, some men have more strength than others; some more health; some more industry; and some more skill and ingenuity, than others; and according to these, and other circumstances the products of their labour must be various, and their property must become unequal. The rights of property must be sacred, and must be protected; otherwise there could be no exertion of either ingenuity or industry, and consequently nothing but extreme poverty, misery, and brutal ignorance.
St. George Tucker, View of the Constitution of the United States , 1803.
Alrighty then, no equality.
When shall the author start working for me, gratis?
Of course the Bible couldn’t speak much for equality. How could it have justified sexual slavery if it did?
10 “When you go out to war against your enemies, and the Lord your God gives them into your hand and you take them captive, 11 and you see among the captives a beautiful woman, and you desire to take her to be your wife, 12 and you bring her home to your house, she shall shave her head and pare her nails. 13 And she shall take off the clothes in which she was captured and shall remain in your house and lament her father and her mother a full month. After that you may go in to her and be her husband, and she shall be your wife. 14 But if you no longer delight in her, you shall let her go where she wants. But you shall not sell her for money, nor shall you treat her as a slave, since you have humiliated her.”
- Deuteronomy 21:10-14.
Because everyone is already equal in worth before their creator.
Equality today means having as many toys as the next person = see the communist manifesto.
Equality and ‘egalitarianism’ are often confused with one another.
There’s a difference!
The article author sure can transcribe fancy words, but he’s too clueless to understand the distinctions between “equality of opportunity”, “equality of result”, “equality before the law”, “equality of status”, etc.
Excellent!
For libtards, equality is justice, and justice is fairness, and fairness is the elimination of the results of Nature's unfairness.So, any standard or practice that divides men (or creatures in general) into better or worse, winners or losers, must be eliminated. Egalitarians wish to eliminate all injustices by wiping out the concept of "the better."
But egalitarians, like Rawls, believe that consequences of any kind due to their beliefs in equality are not relevant to ethics, which is not a recipe for achieving goals, such as men's happiness For them, ethics is an injunction to obey unconditionally one law: the moral law itself; the principle of equality.
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