(May 26, 2015 at 1:13 pm)Heywood Wrote:(May 26, 2015 at 1:06 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: 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.
So like Chad, you're just basically faking egalitarianism.
No, it is not fake. The kind of equality that is believable is good. There should not be pretend quality of opportunity, or just pretending that everyone's needs should be equally regarded by society. Everyone should have a chance to live a decent life. There should be nothing fake or pretend about this.
(May 26, 2015 at 1:13 pm)Heywood Wrote: You don't really believe people, races, genders, and sexual orientations are all equivalent do you?
They should be given equal opportunity, and equal protection by law. Their needs should all be equally considered by society. So in those senses, yes, I think the are all equal or equivalent.
Are you seriously telling us that you believe that every person is equally good at mathematics? That every person is equally good at baseball?
Stop playing word games.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
