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Quote by: Sejita  No, I believe this through logic.
It is IMPOSSIBLE to have every single person on this
planet equal. |
But here you make a classical mistake. There are basic distictions between equality of ability and equality of opportunity, many of which can be addressed merely by educational means and, of course, increased access to resources and social participation. As Noam Chomsky said, "life among clones would not be worth living, and a sane person will only rejoice that others have abilities that they do not share."
[Noam Chomsky, Marxism, Anarchism, and Alternative Futures, p. 782]
Again, it also pays to separate equality into different branches. There are authoritarian definitions which, in my view are false, and then there are anti-authoritarian ideas. For example, an extremist Muslim may say, "fight them until there is no more tumult or oppression, and there
prevail justice and faith in God" -- a statement which clearly intends some variety of equality, though an awful kind that has been "productive" only in negative ways. Then there is another kind of "self-managed' equality, which has "people working in face-to-face relations with their fellows in order to bring the uniqueness of their own perspective to the business of solving common problems and achieving common goals." [George Benello, From the Ground Up, p. 160]
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