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Re:Why Your Brain Isn’t into the Future by pessimizer on Saturday November 05, 2022 @05:24PM (#33485968)
I'm not playing dumb. And I'm also surprised that you're so confident that what they meant by equality is "equal skill levels at a particular task." If that's what they meant, there's literally nobody who believes either that everyone is equal at every task, or that everyone is equal at any task. That would be a dumb strawman.

So are you playing dumb, or is that really what you think they meant?

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Re:Why Your Brain Isn’t into the Future by User23 on Saturday November 05, 2022 @07:01PM (#33486858)
Egalitarianism is such a weak position that there’s no need to strawman it.

And yes literally nobody except children and fools truly believe that people are equal in any material sense. Evidence suggests to me that you are neither a child nor a fool.

Indeed the egalitarian position is so transparently weak that even its erstwhile proponents have abandoned it in favor of “equity,” whatever that means.

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