Why is equality seen as desirable?
>>1140783
People don't want to be alone
>>1140783
Why is being exploited by the ruling class seen as desirable?
(ideology and mystification)
>>1140783
So everyone can have opportunities to pursue his personal desires. If everyone is just as able to succeed, then society will be able to advance together into a better future.
>>1140783
todays notion of equality was a reaction to concrete forms of institutionalised inequality from the feudal system
what people were objecting to wasnt the notion that people arent the same, or even that everione isnt realy equal in some biological or other sense, but to that explicit inequality was set up as a officialised system that you couldnt get out of, that this was distributed basicaly by decree, and that this was hereditary
so people invented a abstract notion of intrinsic equality ' all being created equal', and this was proclaimed a universal and then itself made institutionalised
usualy legal and political equality is seen as generaly desirable because it means everione is guaranteed certain rights and status as a autonomous subject in society
>>1140892
>If everyone is just as able to succeed, then society will be able to advance together into a better future.
Strong claims. What's your evidence and reasoning?
>>1140783
>>>/John_Rawls/
>>1140862
But what if I'm part of the ruling class
>>1141327
>>1140892
>If everyone is just as able to succeed, then society will be able to advance together into a better future.
Basically so you aren't wasting potential geniuses by having them shovel shit for the rest of their lives.
>>1140783
A huge part of being human is wanting to have something that is impossible to get.
>>1141818
A huge part of being human is the ability to reason. Desire is a construct of the mind; learn to control your mind and stop allowing it to exist.
>>1140954
>>1141734
>Basically so you aren't wasting potential geniuses by having them shovel shit for the rest of their lives.
But that's exactly what's happening right now, with 'equality'.
>>1143060
A huge part of being human is a need to be understood and accepted. So we fathom these constructions from our limited scope of view, and frame as gestalt in the hopes of tapping something shared.
>>1140783
because the dregs of society think that they are equal to their masters
