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No, you misunderstand the 'created equally' argument. It doesn't mean everybody should get the same, it means that no legislation should discriminate between pe
by roel_v 15y ago
No, you misunderstand the 'created equally' argument. It doesn't mean everybody should get the same, it means that no legislation should discriminate between people. More technically, the 'created equally' refers to negative liberties and negative rights, not to somebody else's obligation to do something to create an artificial equality.
(note that this is not a matter of argument - this is quite clearly settled. Of course you could question if it should be like this, and if we shouldn't change the meaning of 'equal' into more positive rights ('affirmative action' etc); I'm not so much interested in debating that. I'm just pointing out that for broadly-accepted definitions of the terms you use, your argument is flawed).