“The left’s ‘equality’ agenda is corrupt, absurd, and obscene on several counts. For instance, it ignores the obvious fact that people are by nature and by choice unequal in myriad ways. (Leftists, can you not see that the only way to achieve your dream of ‘equality’ is to forcibly cut everyone down to the level of the least capable and the least virtuous? Or is that your goal?) It ignores the obvious fact that wealth does not exist as a static quantity (an ‘economic pie,’ as Krugman calls it) such that one man’s gain is another man’s loss—but, rather, is created by people who think, work, and transform nature to suit man’s needs. (Look around, leftists. Was all this wealth here when cavemen roamed the earth?) It pretends that wealth producers just got ‘lucky’ and therefore don’t deserve to keep what they’ve ‘allegedly’ earned. (Do you leftists engage in such pretense regarding your children’s accomplishments or your students’ grades?) Fortunately, various advocates of liberty have addressed these aspects of the left’s ‘equality’ agenda, so I won’t detail the errors here. Instead, I want to focus on an aspect of the left’s agenda that hasn’t been sufficiently addressed: the notion that ‘equality’ is an unqualified good. . . .” —Craig Biddle Full article available via subscription or pdf: https://theobjectivestandard/issues/2014-winter/equality-equivocation/
Posted on: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 17:09:06 +0000