That sentence also stuck out to me as betraying a terrible point of view on the part of the author. Yes, inegalitarian traditions live in the community. Do you

That sentence also stuck out to me as betraying a terrible point of view on the part of the author. Yes, inegalitarian traditions live in the community. Do you know what else lives in the community? Friendships and marriages and the park where you played as a kid and the bar where you hang out after work and the parking light behind the high school where you had your first kiss. These things are naturally inequitable, because not everyone had them, and they aren't of equal quality everywhere. But it takes a special kind of perversity to say that we should empower the state to destroy this kind of value simply because not everyone gets to have some.