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Equality and Schooling
I believe in altruistic equality, and not anarchistic equality or imposed pseudo-equality.
But this country is beginning to impose an egalitarian regime on schooling that many people may have fair reason to oppose.
This applies particularly to present rules on marital and family relationships.
Not every religion can be altruistically ‘right’ if they differ ethically, but differing views may be tolerated within limits.
We do not live in China and put people in schools for re-education to create a nation of clones.

RWStanding wrote: ↑Tue Jan 21, 2020 8:08 pm Equality and Schooling
I believe in altruistic equality, and not anarchistic equality or imposed pseudo-equality.
But this country is beginning to impose an egalitarian regime on schooling that many people may have fair reason to oppose.
This applies particularly to present rules on marital and family relationships.
Not every religion can be altruistically ‘right’ if they differ ethically, but differing views may be tolerated within limits.
We do not live in China and put people in schools for re-education to create a nation of clones.

First off, WHICH country are you from?

Second, I can't understand your distinctions of 'equality'. In Canada, my country, we have a 'Separate' school religious option (Catholic) which I think is unfair for the government to grant special incentives unequally. The 'option' permits one to redirect their tax dollars away from the public system uniquely.

The comparison to China cannot be made without looking AT their system particularly. I understand many Socialist systems actually 'vary' the way particular students learn by their aptitudes. So they aren't necessarily 'cloned'. But this is hard to be sure about without investigating more deeply.

RWStanding wrote: ↑Tue Jan 21, 2020 8:08 pm Equality and Schooling
I believe in altruistic equality,

Can you explain what this is?

"Altruism" is premised on inequality, so it's not automatically obvious what you mean. It seems an oxymoron, as given.

Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Wed Jan 22, 2020 5:35 pm
"Altruism" is premised on inequality, so it's not automatically obvious what you mean. It seems an oxymoron, as given.

Interesting. Do you mean an inequality resulting from the altruist assigning greater value to the best interests of others than to himself? Or do you cite inequality on some other basis?

commonsense wrote: ↑Mon Jan 27, 2020 10:57 pm

Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Wed Jan 22, 2020 5:35 pm
"Altruism" is premised on inequality, so it's not automatically obvious what you mean. It seems an oxymoron, as given.

Interesting. Do you mean an inequality resulting from the altruist assigning greater value to the best interests of others than to himself? Or do you cite inequality on some other basis?

Well, nobody needs to be an altruist if things are already equal. And, as you point out, altruism doesn't stop with equality...sometimes it requires the altruist to put himself at a significant disadvantage relative to others. So "equal altruism" looks like a kind of altruism that has neither a reason to start, nor a sufficient range of practice for genuine altruism (if it stops at mere equality).