It is a two edged sword. It cuts both ways but for many years now the blade is only swung in one direction. Filth is filth, no matter the color, sexual preference or gender it presents and justice is supposed to be blind, not ignorant, lazy and concerned with quotas. Standards are anything but when dumbed down to bring the less qualified up to scale. Real standards and by that you well know what I mean.
So many people desire equality but only with those they think their superiors. But here's the problem, are they willing to work to better themselves and be the best they can be regardless of how their success compares to those they envy?
Have a care lest one day they come for you not because you have more than them but because they have less than you.
We should be equal under the law. No more and no less. Equality in all things, including the right to succeed or fail. Life guarantees but one thing and that is it will end.
I am talking about in general. I like you Scott, but you're stuck in your ways. No amount of evidence will change your mind about anything. I can show you overwhelming evidence that you're wrong on an issue, and you will continue to stick with your opinion. Like most people, you don't like to be wrong, and you don't want your worldview to change. It would be a shattering experience for you. Thus, you will stick to your uninformed opinion, despite overwhelming evidence. That is what your generation does. For me, I try to go where the best evidence is. If I believe in X, and the evidence is overwhelming, guess what I do? I change my opinion. I know, I know, scientists are engaged in a mass conspiracy; they all lie, they are all liberal, blah, blah, blah. Again, youre a nice guy, but there is no sense in debating because you will never change your mind no matter how wrong you really are.
Let me ask you this: In the last 5 years, have you ever changed your mind on any stance when presented with good evidence? If you say, yes, then I will concede what I said. If you say, "no" then I will just assume youre someone who is never ever wrong (which is very unlikely).