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RE: An Open Letter to The Community: Why Equality of Opportunity Matters, not Equality of Outcome
I think we should strive towards social equality, but only using voluntary means.
Using government is the worst possible strategy, as the government will become unequal to us, they gain power, we lose it.
OK, so how should we have desegregated businesses in the south? We had to make laws. How should we have allowed gay marriages to be recognized, in our current society living anarchicly would not have been a satisfying answer to those gays who couldn't marry. We have laws against child marriage. We have those laws because when they were passed, child marriage washappening. Social cohesion WAS NOT ENOUGH to make the changes you want IN THE REAL WORLD! We're way off topic from this great post, but I couldn't resist.
Because people dont care about their community today, if we can make people more caring and involved, then we would not need the laws, people would do that voluntarly.
Let's not forget that slavery was a government business, going back all way to ancient kings and pharaohs, I do not think people would do such horrible things on their own.
"Because people dont care about their community today, if we can make people more caring and involved, then we would not need the laws, people would do that voluntarly."
Everything would change if we could really change that, thought vast amounts of historical data as well as experience caution us to be skeptical that we should easily be able to do that any time soon. At least not with the current tools we operate anyway.