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Equal and fair?

Posted by kddr22 2 years, 4 months ago to Philosophy
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Since nature does not endow all men with equal beauty or equal intelligence, and the faculty of volition leads men to make different choices, the egalitarians propose to abolish the "unfairness" of nature and of volition, and to establish universal equality in fact - in defiance of facts. It is not equality before the law that they seek, but inequality: the establishment of an inverted social pyramid, with a new aristocracy on top - the aristocracy of non-value.

Ayn Rand


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    Posted by mccannon01 2 years, 4 months ago
    The only place all men are truly equal is in the graveyard. Socialist/communists and socialist/fascists have been making millions of men prematurely truly equal for some time now.
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    • Posted by $ allosaur 2 years, 4 months ago
      Better dead than Red.
      No, "Red" doesn't mean the GOP save for some RINOs.
      Me old dino hasn't been moved to recall that slogan from the Fifties for a heck of a long time.
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      • Posted by lrshultis 2 years, 4 months ago
        I remember it as "better red than dead" to which Rand replied " better the reds dead". It was a time during the red scare when the Soviets were claiming they would bury us.
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        • Posted by $ allosaur 2 years, 4 months ago
          That reminds me dino of Patton's speech at the beginning of that George C. Scott movie.
          Can't recall the exact words so I'll give it a go without quotation marks.
          To wit~~
          Better not to die for your country but to make that other son of a bitch die for his country.
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          • Posted by lrshultis 2 years, 4 months ago
            Paton does not seem to be streaming free.
            I was exercising my 82 year old body listening to Credence Clearwater Revival. While the conditions are different from the 60s and 70s, might be bad future looming with the words without meaning tearing society apart, here is the song that got more walking distance:

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6iRN...

            or maybe I just entering "...The sixth age shifts
            Into the lean and slipper’d pantaloon,
            With spectacles on nose and pouch on side;
            His youthful hose, well sav’d, a world too wide
            For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,
            Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
            And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
            That ends this strange eventful history,
            Is second childishness and mere oblivion;
            Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything."
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            • Posted by $ allosaur 2 years, 4 months ago
              That was the opening song for "An American Werewolf Of London" that I saw during the Seventies.
              It's the only flick me dino saw or at least recall in which transforming into a werewolf was an extremely painful process.
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  • Posted by Aeronca 2 years, 4 months ago
    We can't beat human nature. In Scandinavia, they have leveled the playing field as much as it can be done. Egalitarian paradise. So, how is it that 80% of doctors and nurses are women, and 80% of the engineers are men? That doesn't look very fair!
    Because, if you make people free to choose anything, then they will choose what they want, by their nature. Men like to work with things. Women like to work with people. The sociologists are pissed off about this fact, because it doesn't fit their agenda. You can tell when sociologists have discovered something that is true, when they hate the result.
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  • Posted by DrZarkov99 2 years, 4 months ago
    American educational standards have been intentionally aimed at the toilet for decades. Demeaning the intellectually gifted as "privileged" even when they're minorities. Seeking "equity" so the collective standard is forced to be the lowest common denominator. Meaningless diplomas for the illiterate, so they won't feel "diminished." Grade promotion for the ignorant, as "social justice."

    All of the facades are gone now, when parents concerned over the poor quality of education for their children are declared domestic terrorists. The only crime these parents are committing is standing in the way of the goal of reducing the populace to ignorant, pacified slugs, easily led.
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  • Posted by $ pixelate 2 years, 4 months ago
    You can see it everywhere you look -- the celebration of mediocrity -- the adulation of the fat, stupid and lazy -- the acceptance of permanent failure, as in the "alcoholic" (I call 'em drunks). It is also the marginalization of achievement, as is seen in the elimination of standardized testing. The days are numbered for the Taggert Bridge -- large scale catastrophic consequences are sure to follow. Galt's Gulch is found in the individual mind.
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    • Posted by teri-amborn 2 years, 4 months ago
      When the Medal of Freedom is bestowed upon Megan Rapino I knew that THAT was the end of any meaning of the word "freedom".

      It's not just the "dumbing down" that is catastrophic but the inversion of values that is destroying this nation.
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    • Posted by mccannon01 2 years, 4 months ago
      "...large scale catastrophic consequences are sure to follow." Yes, such as when airplanes start falling out of the sky because the mechanics can't read the manual and other tidbits of tragedy.
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  • Posted by LibertyBelle 2 years, 4 months ago
    Let's get together somehow and start an open movement to abolish public education per se in this country, if not by Constitutional Amendment, then at least on a state-by-state basis (gradually). It was never right to put the government (and I don't mean only federal, I mean state too, government PER SE) in charge of the minds of the citizens' children.
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  • Posted by BCRinFremont 2 years, 4 months ago
    Equality vs equity. Opportunity vs Outcome. Value vs non-value. Ayn Rand vs AOC. Good God, we are swirling in a wormhole that leads to nothingness. I always thought that Existentialists like Nietsche overstated their Absurdity hypothesis, but I see the philosophy becoming reality. Equity, Outcome, non-value and AOC leave me nauseous.

    Can a culture that focuses on destroying its own young survive?
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