If a famine befell us and you couldnt save everyone would you withhold the food you had and let every citizen starve rather than endure the inequality of just saving some? If recent history is any guide certain leftists just might say yes.
A good example of this phenomenon involved a multiple sclerosis patient in Gothenburg Sweden who was denied a more effective and expensive medication even though he was willing to pay for it because wrote columnist Walter Williams in 2009 bureaucrats said it would set a bad precedent and lead to unequal access to medicine." No wonder Winston Churchill said that socialisms inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery."
And another example just reared its ugly head in Plymouth Michigan where the localitys high school is tearing down newly constructed bleachers in deference to the equality police. MyFoxDetroit.com reports on the issue writing:
A new set of seating is being torn down outside the Plymouth Wildcats varsity boys baseball field not long before the season begins because the fields for boys and girls athletics must be equal.
A group of parents raised money for a raised seating deck by the field as it was hard to see the games through a chain-link fence. The parents even did the installation themselves and also paid for a new scoreboard.
So what happened? Some unnamed malcontent lodged a complaint with the feral government at which point U.S Education Department Office for Civil Rights overlords decreed that the seating must go. Aint equality grand?
Except that equality is simply a ruse. And think about it with respect to this issue: the principle is that facilities for boys and girls athletics must be equal" but are boys and girls athletics equal? The striking contradiction in these male/female sports equality controversies is that calls for equality" are deferred to within the context of the acceptance and promotion of an inherently unequal system. That is to say if equality is the guiding principle here why have separate leagues teams and tours protected from the best competition for girls and women?
The solution whether its the Plymouth situation or calls for equal prize money in tennis is simple. If a lightweight boxer wants the purses the heavyweights get he needs to fight and succeed in the heavyweight class; likewise if feminists want what the boys/men have they should try to compete in their arena. And I do advocate this: eliminate separate categories for women and let the sexes compete together on a level playing field. After all to echo what Lincoln said about laws the best way to eliminate bad social policy is to enforce it strictly. If you believe in equality practice it.
Live it.
And live with it.
And since the boys American high-school mile record is considerably faster than the womens world record and since this gap appears with some variation across sports my proposal would provide some necessary policy clarification."
The education departments decree is also an attack on charity. The message is that pursuing good works just might be a waste of time because inevitably theyll conflict with some government regulation or mandate. Its in addition a quasi-Marxist assault on the market. After all the Plymouth communitys interest in building new baseball bleachers was no doubt driven by there being greater fan turnout for the boys games. And the market renders such verdicts all the time. Its said that female fashion models earn three times what their male counterparts do bars may offer women free drinks or entry without a cover charge and no one troubles over women-only health clubs. Its only when market determinations seem to benefit boys or men that the equality ruse is trotted out.
The truth is that equality dogma is a fiction of modern times. As for the timeless the word equality" appears in only 21 biblical verses mostly referring to matters such as weights and measures. Theres good reason for this and dont blame it on the supposed backwardness" of religion because a devout evolutionist would have to be the staunchest believer in hierarchies born of natural inequality. As G.K. Chesterton pointed out If they people were not created equal they were certainly evolved unequal." Look around you at the world of nature and man which if the evolutionists are correct are certainly one and the same. How much equality do you see? Rams butt heads and one ram wins and the other loses; wolves have alphas and one male lion dominates and leads a pride. Then there are 3.1 billion possible combinations when a couple has a child. And oh what combinations they can be. How many of us can play golf like Tiger Woods defy gravity and shoot baskets like Michael Jordan or compose music at four years of age as did Mozart? People have greatly varying IQs physical capabilities personalities inclinations toward virtue and gifts. Equality is a pipe dream.
This variation exists among groups too. Ashkenazi Jews have the worlds highest average IQ while Asians enjoy that status insofar as major groups go. And disease and conditions have no regard for equality either: the Pima Indians have the highest rate of diabetes on Earth breast cancer afflicts mainly women the incidence of Tay-Sachs disease is highest among Jews black men suffer from prostate cancer at twice the rate whites do while sickle-cell anemia is found almost exclusively among blacks. I guess reality is racist."
Reality is actually this: its completely illogical and contradictory for a person to claim on one hand that he believes in classical cosmic-accident evolution but on the other that all groups somehow quite accidentally wound up the same in capacity inclination and worldly abilities. After all since evolution holds that groups lived and developed separately for millions of years subject to different environments stresses adaptive requirements and to the luck of the draw their winding up equal" was for all intents and purposes a mathematical impossibility.
Earlier evolutionists recognized and accepted this reality mind you and in fact became eugenicists. Note here that the term eugenics" was coined by Charles Darwins cousin Sir Francis Galton. Also note that the concept greatly predates the term: Greek philosopher Plato advocated murdering weak children and the Spartans had actually done it.
This doesnt mean I embrace eugenics or classical evolution (my views on the latter are found here). The point is that whether you believe were accidentally different or that as St. Therese learned there are even divinely ordained hierarchies in Heaven equality is certainly not a thing of this world.
This helps explain why entities prescribing equality" such as the early French republic and all the Marxist killing-field regimes become the worst tyrannies. Since equality is wholly unnatural its mullahs must violate mans nature must trump it and twist it in an effort to pound their sinister square peg into the round hole of reality. And woe betide he who defies their self-deified will.
Cries for equality are today the second-to-last refuge of a scoundrel (shouts of racism" are the absolute last). Contrary to what Churchill said however they dont actually visit upon us an equal sharing of misery. Rather the pigs more equal than others will dispense the ever-diminishing pork to the peons as they feed at the trough of modern mans sloth envy and error.
If a famine befell us and you couldnt save everyone would you withhold the food you had and let every citizen starve rather than endure the inequality of just saving some? If recent history is any guide certain leftists just might say yes.
A good example of this phenomenon involved a multiple sclerosis patient in Gothenburg Sweden who was denied a more effective and expensive medication even though he was willing to pay for it because wrote columnist Walter Williams in 2009 bureaucrats said it would set a bad precedent and lead to unequal access to medicine." No wonder Winston Churchill said that socialisms inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery."
And another example just reared its ugly head in Plymouth Michigan where the localitys high school is tearing down newly constructed bleachers in deference to the equality police. MyFoxDetroit.com reports on the issue writing:
A new set of seating is being torn down outside the Plymouth Wildcats varsity boys baseball field not long before the season begins because the fields for boys and girls athletics must be equal.
A group of parents raised money for a raised seating deck by the field as it was hard to see the games through a chain-link fence. The parents even did the installation themselves and also paid for a new scoreboard.
So what happened? Some unnamed malcontent lodged a complaint with the feral government at which point U.S Education Department Office for Civil Rights overlords decreed that the seating must go. Aint equality grand?
Except that equality is simply a ruse. And think about it with respect to this issue: the principle is that facilities for boys and girls athletics must be equal" but are boys and girls athletics equal? The striking contradiction in these male/female sports equality controversies is that calls for equality" are deferred to within the context of the acceptance and promotion of an inherently unequal system. That is to say if equality is the guiding principle here why have separate leagues teams and tours protected from the best competition for girls and women?
The solution whether its the Plymouth situation or calls for equal prize money in tennis is simple. If a lightweight boxer wants the purses the heavyweights get he needs to fight and succeed in the heavyweight class; likewise if feminists want what the boys/men have they should try to compete in their arena. And I do advocate this: eliminate separate categories for women and let the sexes compete together on a level playing field. After all to echo what Lincoln said about laws the best way to eliminate bad social policy is to enforce it strictly. If you believe in equality practice it.
Live it.
And live with it.
And since the boys American high-school mile record is considerably faster than the womens world record and since this gap appears with some variation across sports my proposal would provide some necessary policy clarification."
The education departments decree is also an attack on charity. The message is that pursuing good works just might be a waste of time because inevitably theyll conflict with some government regulation or mandate. Its in addition a quasi-Marxist assault on the market. After all the Plymouth communitys interest in building new baseball bleachers was no doubt driven by there being greater fan turnout for the boys games. And the market renders such verdicts all the time. Its said that female fashion models earn three times what their male counterparts do bars may offer women free drinks or entry without a cover charge and no one troubles over women-only health clubs. Its only when market determinations seem to benefit boys or men that the equality ruse is trotted out.
The truth is that equality dogma is a fiction of modern times. As for the timeless the word equality" appears in only 21 biblical verses mostly referring to matters such as weights and measures. Theres good reason for this and dont blame it on the supposed backwardness" of religion because a devout evolutionist would have to be the staunchest believer in hierarchies born of natural inequality. As G.K. Chesterton pointed out If they people were not created equal they were certainly evolved unequal." Look around you at the world of nature and man which if the evolutionists are correct are certainly one and the same. How much equality do you see? Rams butt heads and one ram wins and the other loses; wolves have alphas and one male lion dominates and leads a pride. Then there are 3.1 billion possible combinations when a couple has a child. And oh what combinations they can be. How many of us can play golf like Tiger Woods defy gravity and shoot baskets like Michael Jordan or compose music at four years of age as did Mozart? People have greatly varying IQs physical capabilities personalities inclinations toward virtue and gifts. Equality is a pipe dream.
This variation exists among groups too. Ashkenazi Jews have the worlds highest average IQ while Asians enjoy that status insofar as major groups go. And disease and conditions have no regard for equality either: the Pima Indians have the highest rate of diabetes on Earth breast cancer afflicts mainly women the incidence of Tay-Sachs disease is highest among Jews black men suffer from prostate cancer at twice the rate whites do while sickle-cell anemia is found almost exclusively among blacks. I guess reality is racist."
Reality is actually this: its completely illogical and contradictory for a person to claim on one hand that he believes in classical cosmic-accident evolution but on the other that all groups somehow quite accidentally wound up the same in capacity inclination and worldly abilities. After all since evolution holds that groups lived and developed separately for millions of years subject to different environments stresses adaptive requirements and to the luck of the draw their winding up equal" was for all intents and purposes a mathematical impossibility.
Earlier evolutionists recognized and accepted this reality mind you and in fact became eugenicists. Note here that the term eugenics" was coined by Charles Darwins cousin Sir Francis Galton. Also note that the concept greatly predates the term: Greek philosopher Plato advocated murdering weak children and the Spartans had actually done it.
This doesnt mean I embrace eugenics or classical evolution (my views on the latter are found here). The point is that whether you believe were accidentally different or that as St. Therese learned there are even divinely ordained hierarchies in Heaven equality is certainly not a thing of this world.
This helps explain why entities prescribing equality" such as the early French republic and all the Marxist killing-field regimes become the worst tyrannies. Since equality is wholly unnatural its mullahs must violate mans nature must trump it and twist it in an effort to pound their sinister square peg into the round hole of reality. And woe betide he who defies their self-deified will.
Cries for equality are today the second-to-last refuge of a scoundrel (shouts of racism" are the absolute last). Contrary to what Churchill said however they dont actually visit upon us an equal sharing of misery. Rather the pigs more equal than others will dispense the ever-diminishing pork to the peons as they feed at the trough of modern mans sloth envy and error.