Created equal is a truism and a falsism...equally.
Exactly..each of us was born and should have an equal opportunity to live, do well and then die happy. But life’s gifts of ability do not factor equally in the effort of living.
I have a very high IQ and while I did very well in college and graduate school in my areas of specialty and many others, I learned long ago it did not mean s..t when it came to how well I could console a person, address anybody’s or my spirituality, my ability to draw and paint freehand or make original music...and the list just goes on and on.
Whoever is contemplating “ability” really needs to know there are many areas and times, distinctly different from each other where, where a person may be brilliant or a dullard. It is up to us as individuals to “grow” or not.
And, I think, those areas and times may show up as one gets older and older.
Our constant evolution as a learning and understanding human are absolutely never ending. It is part of the joy of being human regardless of our skin color, geographic area where were born, or our parentage.
Genetics and development during maturation of the human brain and body disperses those gifts of ability throughout the population.
99.9%?