Virtually all reasonable, fair-minded people want a society where everyone is equal I have never met a reasonable, fair-minded person who wanted a societ

Virtually all reasonable, fair-minded people want a society where everyone is equal I have never met a reasonable, fair-minded person who wanted a society where everyone is equal. Let me quote [1]: "[W]ith the possible exception of Barbeuf (1796), no prominent author or movement has demanded strict equality. Since egalitarianism has come to be widely associated with the demand for economic equality, and this in turn with communistic or socialistic ideas, it is important to stress that neither communism nor socialism [...] calls for absolute economic equality." The most famous 20th century defender of equality has been Pol Pot who justified his crimes by his wish to create the "perfectly equal state". I refer once again to the article [1] for an overview of the problems with making the concept of equality precise, beyond populism. I suggest reading equality of a narrative device, intended for drastic simplification that appeals to the masses. Comparable narrative simplifications are for example concepts like god, last judgement, Karma etc in the religions. They are extreme simplifications of complex social processes. [1] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/equality/ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/equality/