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Posted: **Mon Sep 17, 2018 2:17 pm**

Equality and Uniformity
Equality and Uniformity is an ethical dimension opposing Class or Caste.
If everything is totally uniform, then nothing has individuality and there is in reality just the one.
Equality necessitates individuality, with differences that cannot be overtly ethical and must be cultural, but with society valuing those differences equally.
But there are levels at which this set of values apply.
There is the level of the individual person within a society.
And a level or levels of society as corporate bodies of people, as they relate together.
If all those societies were entirely the same then they would be one.
if all people were the same in culture then there would only be the one global culture.
And indeed, there would be no basis of comparison to judge higher levels or complexities of culture.
It is intrinsic to the existence of different cultures that they are autonomous and exclusive at the level of individual people and groups.

Posted: **Mon Sep 17, 2018 9:30 pm**

RWStanding wrote: ↑Mon Sep 17, 2018 2:17 pm Equality and Uniformity
Equality and Uniformity is an ethical dimension opposing Class or Caste.
If everything is totally uniform, then nothing has individuality and there is in reality just the one.
Equality necessitates individuality, with differences that cannot be overtly ethical and must be cultural, but with society valuing those differences equally.
But there are levels at which this set of values apply.
There is the level of the individual person within a society.
And a level or levels of society as corporate bodies of people, as they relate together.
If all those societies were entirely the same then they would be one.
if all people were the same in culture then there would only be the one global culture.
And indeed, there would be no basis of comparison to judge higher levels or complexities of culture.
It is intrinsic to the existence of different cultures that they are autonomous and exclusive at the level of individual people and groups.

Equality of essence is one thing and equality of results is another.

From the Declaration of Independence:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

Of course it is rejected and IMO Simone Weil explains why it must be rejected. The corrupt ego cannot accept equality in ignorance as it pertains to relation to our collective source. Equality in respect is too insulting to consider.

The combination of these two facts — the longing in the depth of the heart for absolute good, and the power, though only latent, of directing attention and love to a reality beyond the world and of receiving good from it — constitutes a link which attaches every man without exception to that other reality.
Whoever recognizes that reality recognizes also that link. Because of it, he holds every human being without any exception as something sacred to which he is bound to show respect.
This is the only possible motive for universal respect towards all human beings. Whatever formulation of belief or disbelief a man may choose to make, if his heart inclines him to feel this respect, then he in fact also recognizes a reality other than this world's reality. Whoever in fact does not feel this respect is alien to that other reality also.

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