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#721By MIND on Thursday, June 22, 2000 - 11:51 pm

There is enough wealth in the world for every human being to live comfortably. And yet millions are still hungry and poverty-stricken. Why is this? The answer to this question lies in the fact that the world is still using the socio-economic system of capitalism,which REQUIRES that humans be divided into social classes-the woking class which actually produces the wealth with the sweat and labor-and the owning class which profits from the workers sweat and labor(and sometimes blood). So I ask, is it not time for mankind to LIVE like we are created-equal?

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#723By Carlan on Sunday, June 25, 2000 - 4:56 am

As far as I know there exist no place in the world where any of us are born equal. Many of us are born with many of the same advantages, but even in that, none of us born equal. So, the assumption that each one of us should share anything including wealth equally is absurd. Those people whom astutely and diligently apply themselves to obtaining great wealth through their own ingenuity and entrepreneurial skills are not born equal either. Some are better at it than their peers. In all jobs of labor we are not equal in how we approach a particular job or how well we intend to do any applied for job. Some people are craftspeople and apply themselves diligently, skillfully, and with great personal pride in doing whatever job they are required to do; on the other hand many people in the work force take no pride in their work and produce little if anything to better themselves or better anyone's else's social or economical position. Then, there are those people whom contribute nothing because they will not work. Those people become leeches and take but have no intention of applying themselves to learning to do any job.

In an ordinary family, in which all of the members of that family strive and work together to better the situation for the entire family they are still not born to either produce or contribute or use things equally. The best that the family can hope for is that each member takes seriously their own large or small part in the total success of the entire family. If a person looks into their own family's hierarchical structure from the head to the smallest contributor one soon realizes that equality does not really exist, not in what any one member knows, produces, or uses. If one projects this familial working institution onto a nation's workforce, I think it can be easily realized the many similarities and inequalities that must be considered. Wealth and entrepreneurial skills like everything else in life, whether we would like it or not, is distributed by the blind injustice of the fated gods.

Historically, in many parts of the world, the redistribution of a country's wealth has been forcibly adjusted to accommodate the whim of an idealistic person or people, but, at the end of the day, those people whom were to be rich under the old scheme turned out to be the rich in the new regime and those people whom were already poor in the old scheme of things, well, they remain the beleaguered poor to this very day. In some cases, once those before poor people became the newly rich, well, they soon found that their before thought out idealistic ideas about equality for all people soon faded into the great abyss of the lost and the forgotten.

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#1271By linda on Monday, February 05, 2001 - 4:53 pm

All people are created equal only because, we are of the Human Race, and nothing else. How could a prostitute's child born in an alley, be born equal say with one of JFK children. This is where the difference begins. Now the children are all born with a brain. Depending on how they themselves use their knowledge, would make or break a person. I am the daughter of a prostitute, and you know what it never bothered me. I am not saying it would not stigmatize another person, but I am saying I really never thought about it. I played, went to school, watched TV, and did almost everything other children did. I do not know what went on in their homes, anymore than
anyone else did. I am not a prostitute and raised my children the best I could. They turned out pretty damn good, like myself. I feel to be equal you need to be born with something deep, deep inside of you, I do not know what it is called. This magic thing makes or breaks you. Sometimes, I call it respect for oneself, pride, the want to be. So maybe the equality you are talking of only come at birth. Then we make our lives. If I strive I too could become as rich as the Kennedy's. Their father made his riches, and passed it down. I was passed down poverty, because my mother did not have what I talked of. I do not think the Kennedy's should share their riches, would that not be Communistic. Live, try hard and alway have pride.
Rebecca Linda Vasquez-Allen

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#1717By vinodh on Wednesday, November 28, 2001 - 7:31 am

The root cause is what you people think. It emanetes from the rotten teachings of Moses, Jesus, Mohammed,and all the masters of relegious thought and deed. So it is better to discard them to start a new starting to eradicate the inequality

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#1721By Carlan on Thursday, November 29, 2001 - 5:35 pm

Equality is another ambiguous word which when used in the context concerning human beings has caused all of us undo anxiety and at times profound bewilderment. If we concern ourselves with thinking about how equal or unequal we are with other people we will find ourselves most of the time feeling quite unhappy.

Frankly, there is no such thing as equality in respect to the human condition in a general way or otherwise. In all aspects of life that I am aware there is nowhere where I can think we are equal except in death. And, probably death will prove to be unequal as well.

Perhaps, to discard all religious beliefs may be of benefit to some, but I think on the whole we are better off by participating in them as they are because for the most part I think the world with all of its diversity of people and places need something philosophical to hold on to keep us all from killing each other.

I don’t think that the woes of the world will ever be eradicated successfully no matter what you or I do or don’t do because the woes are an intricate component necessary for the overall scheme of things as they are to be. However, trying to make things better for you and the people around you is always a good thing.

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#2003By gary on Thursday, April 18, 2002 - 6:41 pm

Put yourself in all their predicaments, feel what they feel, take on their thoughts and you will feel what they feel.

Its easy to have an educated view, socially or by education but remember, you will have this by your experience.

My dream is for the imagination to pass, without question of mine or yours or those who told us how it happened.

My answer to one of the above statments is that that same root springs to touch us all, if we entwine it with personal religious belief then we miss the point.

We are not against eah other but as it seems 'set against each other. This is not a cruel game, but it is cruel. No one has the choice on who is up or down, left or right, black or white or good or bad.. thats yours alone, from the TOP to bottom.

My fear is mine and I can win against it, so can you, all of you.

I'm from Ireland

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#5332By Eunice Co on Saturday, April 03, 2004 - 3:29 am

I only pray that we do not kill each other. We are all God's creation whether we are white or black, able bodied or not -- we are loved by someone, a family or a friend. If/ when we are gone, we will be missed.
When are we going to stand as one...when aliens try to take over the world... why not now? We should not propagate hate, that is the worst of evil I think. We should not instigate hate/ violence.
"We have such great potential to do good, and such great potential to do evil - Carl Wilks", I hope we choose to do good. Don't you think it would be better?

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#5431By Horn on Thursday, April 15, 2004 - 7:15 pm

MIND- aka communsim, which did NOT work at all... Name one communist country left... China acts capitalist btw..communism leaves people worse off than capitalism..in capitalism if you work hard you can obtain that desired wealth..

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#6229By Joweed on Tuesday, August 31, 2004 - 2:09 am

I'd like to think that we human beings are not unlike fruits(pardon the metaphor). We all have our individual differences but it is that very difference which makes us one people... just like apples and oranges... both are fruit yet they are worlds apart, there is just no basis for comparison, to do so would be an exercise in futility much like mankinds history thus far. Besides, I don't even think there is a useful point in finding the better fruit... we'd have a hard enough time just deciding the definition of better. At the end of the day we must realize that a fruit will still only be fruit... Different nonetheless equal... equal when we are born... equal when we die... i honestly believe that a litle positivity can go a long way... peace

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#6235By mysticsdream on Tuesday, August 31, 2004 - 6:57 am

You are all Bananas

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#6248By Albert on Tuesday, August 31, 2004 - 3:18 pm

Fruit? Was that a Freudian slip?

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#6262By mysticsdream on Wednesday, September 01, 2004 - 12:00 am

Maybe a result of too much exercise in fruitility

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#6271By mountainwoman on Wednesday, September 01, 2004 - 4:26 pm

L * O * L

A gem, Mystics... lol... that is an absolute gem!

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#6273By Unga on Wednesday, September 01, 2004 - 8:05 pm

Created equal, but not equally sharing the abondance that the earth has to offer.
If we were equal, then I believe there would be no poor starving to death, homeless, houseless, countryless etc. and rich dying due to deseases due to over-eating!
Equal! just a mathematical symbol.

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#6282By mountainwoman on Thursday, September 02, 2004 - 2:04 pm

Right you are, Unga. Equal in the eyes of the Creator but not equally endowed or treated.

Still, day follows night follows day. Some creatures big, others small. Feast follows famine. That is the way of Nature.

Equal probably is a mathematical term and not much else. Created by the human mind to signify an impossible state... (you can have equal amounts of sugar, rock, paper, scissors, but not truly equal people)

Equal and free are two ideas that sound awfully good but, since they cannot be conceived of without their opposites, I find them of dubious usefulness in one's philosophy of life.

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#6505By suresh on Thursday, September 23, 2004 - 5:22 pm

Isn't it obscene to talk of equality in society when we accept the position in which 16 persons live in one room and one person lives in sixteen rooms; where people die of hunger and for want of medicines (living at a level even lower than animal existence) and on the other hand the rich and effuent indulge in conspicuous consumption, spending crores on marriages and other such like ceremonies. We tend to justify this under the cover of efficiency, skill, individual achievements etc. But is it so? It is common knowledge that wealth is amassed and accumulated not always by due means and these very people or their represntatives/ stooges frame the policies, benefittig and protecting themselves.