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PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

That’s a good metaphor!

Even so, there’s luxury cars/trucks and economical cars/trucks. Sure, the purpose of a car or truck is to get you from point A to point B. In the objectives of a vehicle, they’re all mostly the same. But it’s in how it achieves its purpose that differences pop up. Luxury performance cars get you from point A to point B with style and a roaring engine, while my little 2019 Hyundai Ioniq does so with an austere sense of minimalism. Thus cars, in their means of achieving their objective, are different.

Why isn’t it the same with people? I concede that humans are humans, but some humans are financiers while others are nurses. How are we equal in our humanness but different in our methods of expressing it? Charitably, it sounds like the conservative ideal is to treat those differences as equal, but that’s never what really happens.

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