It appears that Vox is actually a late comer to the issue of equality. Despite seeming like the lone voice in the wilderness, pretty much everything he has written was put forth over 50 years ago. I was reading thru the 1961 edition of Essays On Liberty, put out by the Foundation for Economic Education and found this by R. Carter Pittman: No one questions the right of all men to equal justice under law, but propagandists have carried the doctrine beyond equality of rights to equality of things, and men are heard to proclaim human equality who would revolt at the suggestion that all birds, all fish, all cattle, all dogs, or all race horses are equal. Of course, all men are not created equal any more so than are all other members of the animal kingdom. Even if they are created equal, creation ends when life begins, and life is always unequal. Nevertheless, we are told over and over again and again that all men are equal, and the Declaration of Independence is cited as final authority. The Declaration of Independence never became living law in America, and no provision of the federal Constitution or Bill of Rights can be traced to it; its influence on state constitutions and bills of rights has been insignificant. It was written to serve the temporary purposes of a sanguinary conflict. It was and perhaps will ever be history’s most effective piece of propaganda, but it neither grants nor protects human rights.
Posted on: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 16:18:13 +0000
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