RE: Peanut Gallery Commentary on the Staff Log of Bannings and such like.
July 4, 2016 at 1:34 pm
(This post was last modified: July 4, 2016 at 1:34 pm by Thumpalumpacus.)
(July 4, 2016 at 1:01 pm)Alasdair Ham Wrote:Alex K Wrote:[...]equal treatment does not necessarily mean fair.
Quoted for truth!
Steven Pinker Wrote:[...]first of all, the concept of fairness is not the same as the concept of sameness. And so when Thomas Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal," he did not mean "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are clones."
Source of quote: https://www.ted.com/talks/steven_pinker_...anguage=en
ETA: Fixed URL.
It's a good thing no one was arguing that all people are the same, then.
This is exactly why this conversation is so goddamned frustrating. It's almost as if you're deliberately missing the point.
