Posted on 10/25/2020 9:50:19 AM PDT by rktman
In a society structured to foster equality of opportunity, three things tend to determine how successful someone is or isn't: intelligence (or skill), industriousness, and luck. On the surface, these things may seem unfair. For example, someone born into a family that promotes and develops education, who was taught about the value of hard work and had resources and connections on hand, would clearly have an enormous advantage over someone born into a split or uninterested family, enduring a failing public school system, with few or no mentors. Despite this, the equality of opportunity has two overwhelming advantages: first, success, or the lack thereof, is not predetermined by any bureaucracy or person in charge but instead by one's own ability and fortune. Second, it is the only guarantee that we have freedom to own property and control our own lives, whereas with equality of outcome, all properties and liberties must be tightly regulated by the bureaucrat. As Hayek notes, "In a planned society we shall all know that we are better or worse off than others, not because of circumstances which nobody controls, and which it is impossible to foresee with certainty, but because some authority wills it" (p, 138).
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Equality of outcome isn’t really the desired goal. Making political strides for the left, via class warfare is the desired goal.
When a liberal says they believe in evolution you can ask why they expect equal outcomes. Evolution dictates there will be unequal outcomes.
A planned society is very attractive to those who are arrogant enough to think that THEY will be among the planners.
This equality of outcome reminds me of Monty Python’s Dennis Moore:
It’s been very popular to be quoting George Orwell’s 1984 recently.
If people really want to see the outcome of a one government way theology. they should have read Orwell’s other book called Animal Farm.
Animal Farm is an allegorical novel by George Orwell, first published in England on 17 August 1945. The book tells the story of a group of farm animals who rebel against their human farmer, hoping to create a society where the animals can be equal, free, and happy. But according to Orwell, the fable reflects events leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1917 and then on into the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union. A very dark time.
But it displays our situation now with the following fact from Orwell himself from the book:
“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. A proclamation by the pigs who control the government in the novel Animal Farm,” by George Orwell.
We aren’t seeing 1984 with this attack on our democracy by the socialists, we are seeing the attempt to Animal Farm so it can be right out in the open and accepted by the other animals. A theology that has kept a lot of the rest of the world in control and misery to this day.
rwood
There is no greater hell on earth than enforced equality.
The year was 2081...
http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/harrison.html
My old Tagline used to say: “Socialism will always be popular as long as there are those who think they can get something for nothing.”
the reason there is the hue and cry over perceived inequality is that there is inequality
Many people....... at least half, just don’t measure up.
As the French say... “Vive la difference!”
Probably the worst part of the declaration of independence is the noble lie “all men are created equal”. That’s about as far from a self evident truth as one can get.
The self evident truth is that “all men are created with different abilities and attributes”
Chris Plante is fond of saying: “Socialism is for the people, not the socialists.”
The whole statement is “All men are created equal under the eyes of God.”
All men are equally accountable under the law.
Dr. Jordan Peterson destroys this myth very eloquently.
Equality of Outcome = Race to the Lowest Common Denominator
That’s not what it says. That’s your interpretation. Others use it to promote egalitarianism and equal outcome.
It was stupid to put it in the declaration. It’s causing a lot of the problems we see today with the socialist and the equality mongers.
I called it a NOBLE lie on purpose. Another good intention leading to hell.
And that’s not to denigrate the founders. All in all they geniuses, and created a great system.
Chris Plante is fond of saying: “Socialism is for the people, not the socialists.”*
*Unless it’s Andrew Wilkow who says that, I get them confused sometimes.
We aren’t born equal. That’s what individuality is all about.
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