(May 26, 2015 at 1:00 pm)Heywood Wrote:(May 26, 2015 at 12:53 pm)Chad32 Wrote: We believe people should be treated equally because that's the best way for a society to all get along with each other. That's also why killing and thievery are pretty universal, whether a culture worships Yahweh/Jesus or not. We're a social species that needs ways to get along with each other, and equality is one of the best ways of accomplishing that. No gods required.
So you don't believe people are really equal, just that society operates more smoothly if we pretend they are? It sounds like you are simply faking egalitarianism too me.
No one but an idiot believes everyone is actually equal. You know that some people are better at mathematics than others, some are better at baseball than others, etc. If you are unaware of these facts, you must be brain dead.
The social equality that is desirable is as Chad32 describes it. People should have equality of opportunity, and people's needs should be equally regarded by society.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
