We can say that all men are BORN equal with the identical individual rights. There is no equality after that as the genes begin to express and respond to the environment of the baby, almost immediately--and that's only if there are no defects in that baby. This idea that all men ARE equal is one of the most idiotic socialist concepts ever formed. It immediately leads to altruism and provides an irrefutable excuse to parents and the child to not learn and not work and removes pride in self and achievement.

Hello number6,
Our POTUS just recently talked about how some of us had won "Life's Lottery" and how we owed it to others to pay our fair share... Apparently to make it up to the less fortunate "Lottery" losers.

"Observe that . . . the egalitarians’ view of man is literally the view of a children’s fairy tale—the notion that man, before birth, is some sort of indeterminate thing, an entity without identity, something like a shapeless chunk of human clay, and that fairy godmothers proceed to grant or deny him various attributes (“favors”): intelligence, talent, beauty, rich parents, etc. These attributes are handed out “arbitrarily” (this word is preposterously inapplicable to the processes of nature), it is a “lottery” among pre-embryonic non-entities, and—the supposedly adult mentalities conclude—since a winner could not possibly have “deserved” his “good fortune,” a man does not deserve or earn anything after birth, as a human being, because he acts by means of “undeserved,” “unmerited,” “unearned” attributes. Implication: to earn something means to choose and earn your personal attributes before you exist." Ayn Rand, Philosophy Who Needs it, pg. 111

Respectfully,
O.A.

A != B
B != A

It's really not that hard. Only the delusional try to equate what is plainly not the same. And it applies in a LOT of areas!

Saying that all people are created equal and expecting them to have unlimited potential is like running a race and expecting everyone to finish at the same time.

funny , it seems many have read this differently than I have.
To me it says the greatest inequality is trying to make all equal. (Because we all have differing abilities or talents etc) It is against all traditional liberal beliefs and against socialism etc.

I don't think that mankind will ever be equal it isn't in our genetic make-up. We all have different abilities unfortunately our educational system is completely out of date while the states that still have CORE don't understand this. There are alot of industries that throw out employees who develope disabilities while on the job through no fault of their own. I hope one day educators will be proven wrong through genetic science. A new system would be develope to maximize the skills of each individual child. I had to visit with my son's teachers both in elementary and high school to demand that they do more individual instruction because he had a learning disability. I railed against the system in those schools to no-avail. The attitude was that each child had to learn at the same pace. As a young man at 33 yrs old he is married and working for major insurance company.

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