Agreed. Saying everyone is equal is a nice elementary school thought, meant to inspire people. But it simply isn't factually true. We're so far disconnected

Agreed. Saying everyone is equal is a nice elementary school thought, meant to inspire people. But it simply isn't factually true. We're so far disconnected from the tribal traditions of our distant ancestors, we forget that different values can be very easily bestowed upon an individuals life, for very legitimate reasons in some cases (when its life or death... and survival of the fittest, in an ancient society). I guess I can sort of see some truth in "we all have equal potential" but even thats shaky concept at best, just meant to inspire people. Thats all this speech appears to be though, an inspirational talk. Not something thats going to stand to the logical rigor most HN readers are going to want to apply to it.