On 7/31/2020 4:09 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
Equality means, at least in my mind in this discussion, equality of
right. It is the idea that everyone obeys to the law, especially at
the top who has to give the example. It means same amount of money for
the same amount of work, independently of the genre, colour skin, etc.
It does not mean “freedom of religion” which is an apparently nice
idea, but in practice it is the legalisation of moral harassment, the
legalisation of lies, etc. In fact, freedom of religion is almost the
same as the interdiction to use reason in theology, and is the main
trick of most tyrants and pressure groups.
Equality of right is what should normally prevent the “extremely
equal” setting, when we are asked to forget how different we really are.
As I would expect of a logician, you avoid the operational meanings. A
right, must be something one has the power to do or refrain from doing,
and society defends this choice. So it is quite different from
"everyone obeys the same law" and "gets the same pay for the same amount
of work". In many cases it is a freedom from laws. I think that was
the great advance of the Enlightenment, the rejection of the medieval,
theocratic idea that there was a only one (holy) way to do everything
and the idea of sin extended into every facet of life, even into
thought. The Enlightenment and the U.S. Constitution built in the
concept of a private realm and a limited public/government realm.
Brent
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