(April 13, 2014 at 2:55 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote: Perhaps that's where the misconception "equality requires interchangeability" comes from. It's more than a little unfair, as we're not discussing access to services or education.
Consider, which is the superior instrument, the piano or the violin?
They are quite different. The former can provide it's own harmony, has a much wider range and, in the hands of a skilled performer, duplicate the harmony of an entire orchestra. The latter is a superior melodic instrument, allowing the performer such nuance as to make that sharp just a hair sharper as the melody moves to its resolution. They are different but that doesn't mean one is inferior to the other.
Beethoven's Violin Concerto was once arranged as a Piano Concerto. It was awful! The melodies that were originally conceived for violin could only be clumsily followed by the piano. They are not interchangeable instruments by any means.
The violin does not need to become a piano in order to be equal.
I don't agree—the piano is still better—but I've realized that similar isn't necessarily equal either.
1. Sex discrimination is assigning men and women different rights.
2. Neither women nor men have the right to an abortion.
3. Thus denying women the right to an abortion is not sex discrimination.
