Sunday, February 26, 2023

Egalitarianism vs. Egalitarians Describing Egalitarianism

Wikipedia has the tell in the first sentence. 

"Egalitarianism [...] is a school of thought within political philosophy that builds from the concept of social equality, prioritizing it for all people."

For all people.

"What if I don't like social equality and don't want it? What if I have different priorities?"

"Too bad. P.S. Fuck you." 

If you listen, folk will tell you who they are.

The Egalitarian isn't the slightest bit interested in what you want. They're self-absorbed. 

Nobody asked if the slaves wanted to be freed. Maybe most of them would have said yes, but we'll never know, because nobody asked. They didn't ask, because they didn't care. Result: they slaves were not freed. Their slavery merely became more dishonourable via obfuscation. E.g. a sharecropper was a cotton-picking slave job with extra steps. 


You can't free a slave anyway, as per Aristotle. Slave is a phenotype, not a legal class. Freeing a slave makes as much sense as trying to achieve flight by legalizing the growing of wings. "Just outlaw gravity bro." "Naw man Imma do a compulsory psychic powers law."

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