RE: New York Post Cartoon
February 23, 2009 at 6:17 pm
(This post was last modified: February 23, 2009 at 6:23 pm by Meatball.)
Bozo and Adrian seem to be thinking about this from different angles.
I side with Adrian in that all human beings are fundamentally equal. Not all will make the same kind of impact, not all will accumulate and inherit the same monetary wealth or power.
Richard Dawkins and Ted Haggard are both human beings and should be afforded equal rights to life and liberty. Furthermore, Bill Gates and an African child born malnourished with AIDS are both human beings and should be afforded equal rights to life and liberty, and are equal in that sense. Some people get the short end of the stick, yes. The world isn't fair in that sense. What's important is that no human is fundamentally "better" than another.
Bozo, do you feel that Bill Gates' offspring are entitled to something that the poor couples' child is not? I'm not talking literally (obviously), but philosophically.
I side with Adrian in that all human beings are fundamentally equal. Not all will make the same kind of impact, not all will accumulate and inherit the same monetary wealth or power.
Richard Dawkins and Ted Haggard are both human beings and should be afforded equal rights to life and liberty. Furthermore, Bill Gates and an African child born malnourished with AIDS are both human beings and should be afforded equal rights to life and liberty, and are equal in that sense. Some people get the short end of the stick, yes. The world isn't fair in that sense. What's important is that no human is fundamentally "better" than another.
Bozo, do you feel that Bill Gates' offspring are entitled to something that the poor couples' child is not? I'm not talking literally (obviously), but philosophically.
