RE: Peanut Gallery Commentary on the Staff Log of Bannings and such like.
July 4, 2016 at 2:01 pm
(July 4, 2016 at 1:50 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: No, if you reread what I replied to, you'll see that the quote addresses the state of being of people ("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." [emphasis added])
I certainly wasn't arguing that men and women are exactly the same, and that makes that quote pretty irrelevant.
Steven Pinker's point when he quoted Thomas Jefferson was that sameness is not the same concept as fairness.
My point is that because sameness is not the same concept as fairness: treating men and women the same is not the same as treating them fairly. If we treat them the same by treating them both unfairly that's doubling the unfairness because treating the same is not the same as treating fairly.
