> Your website seems to be appropriately named.
Yes, of course. Why would you deliberately do the wrong thing — or pretend to — again and again?
Here’s a better question: Why are you wasting your life giving me gas, when your so-called leaders are wasting you intellectual capital making dumb jokes about dog meat?
My intellectual capital isn’t wasted by stupid jokes about dogs. I’m not paying attention.
My issue is that people with a very high opinion of themselves have historically viewed their (in their own minds) wonderfulness as license to trample on other people, who by (their) definition are not as wonderful.
I much prefer humble indomitability. I am not in myself any better than anyone else, but on the other hand I am no worse.
For me this grows out of belief in “all men are created equal.” I believe if this precept is fully accepted and applied, all other ethical principles can be extracted. If you do not accept this principle, IMO your ethics will be invalid, or at minimum will have no foundation on which to rest.
Where I suspect I differ from you is my belief that we are equal because we were CREATED equal. We are equal only because God made us so. Since we are not the same in any way, we are not equal in any other sense. We are equal only because we are equal in His eyes.