I believe in equality and all that hippie shit.
I admit I got hung up on this. What do you mean you believe in equality ?
I’m Orthodox, so there’s a sense in which I believe it’s true. But I want to know what you mean by it.
I just choose to believe that all people are created equal, in general. I choose not to get deeper than that, it gets weird. Sorry!
That’s runs counter to my experience - for example, a man is not equal to a woman; they’re created fundamentally differently. Likewise with different races; they’re different from each other, possessing different strengths and weaknesses, statistically as well as individually. And perhaps most strikingly, the inequality of morality that exists between people. Some are angelic, some demonic, with every possible range in between. There are many other differences that exist among men. That they are “created equal” just doesn’t pan out.
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