People are not equal, but they are of equal value. They have equal rights and are equal before the law. These human rights are an important principle of any democratic society. Human rights are also called fundamental rights. These are rights stipulate, for instance, that everyone has freedom of expression. That everyone may freely profess their religion or belief. That everyone has the right to privacy, the right to keep personal information private.
Um I'm pretty sure Billy sucked at drawing and there's no way on earth I would have passed chemistry without a cheat sheet. Not every person has the same ability to learn math with ease. Not every person can accurately draw a horse. Some people are natural listeners; some don't know when to shut up. Each person is born with particular gifts and innate skills, a tendency to be better at some things rather than others.
Yes given enough time and attention it's likely anyone can become proficient in a certain skill but why waste time trying to become "proficient" when you could become a master at something else.
I believe it's so important to gain a strong understanding of core subjects. But does everyone really need to climb the rope in gym class, study 20th century poetry, physics, calculus? Oh God please not calculus. Not everyone has the same interests or skills. Not everyone can become a doctor, not everyone can become Beckham. Not everyone wants to.
Perhaps we should spend the better part of our time and education making the most of our individual attributes rather than wasting time forcing things that we'll never master and never cared about in the first place. Humans naturally have unique abilities. They have different qualities, skill sets, and priorities. Let's stop pretended we're all so equal, we're not.
You have brown hair I have blonde, she likes cats, he likes dogs, Hilary's intelligent, Donald's By trying to throw everyone in the same boat we're glossing over what makes us interesting.
We're limiting some and forcing other's down unproductive paths. Many scholars believe otherwise. In support of de Waal, researchers have found that if you ask children to distribute items to strangers, they are strongly biased towards equal divisions, even in extreme situations.
The psychologists Alex Shaw and Kristina Olson told children between the ages of six and eight about two boys, Dan and Mark, who had cleaned up their room and were to be rewarded with erasers—but there were five of them, so an even split was impossible.
Children overwhelmingly reported that the experimenter should throw away the fifth eraser rather than establish an unequal division.
It might seem as though these responses reflect a burning desire for equality, but more likely they reflect a wish for fairness. It is only because Dan and Mark did the same work that they should get the same reward. In other words, they were fine with inequality, so long as it was fair. For instance, children prefer one for them and zero for another child over an arrangement where everyone gets two. This finding meshes well with what other psychologists have found—and which many parents have observed: When treats are being distributed, children will complain bitterly if they get less, but are entirely mellow if they get more.
Other primates behave similarly. Monkeys enjoy cucumbers and will normally be happy getting one, but if they are handed one after having just seen another monkey getting a grape—which monkeys love —they freak out.
The monkey with the grape, on the other hand, is perfectly comfortable with its relative advantage. A different sort of argument in favor of a natural bias toward equality comes from observations of small-scale groups, which really do seem to be egalitarian.
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