{"id":4232,"date":"2019-11-05T05:51:46","date_gmt":"2019-11-05T12:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=4232"},"modified":"2019-11-05T05:51:46","modified_gmt":"2019-11-05T12:51:46","slug":"the-heresy-of-equality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=4232","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Heresy of Equality\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>People do not embrace an intellectual abstraction like \u201cequality\u201d because it is self-evidently true, but rather because, as he says, they fear that they are somehow disadvantaged in the competition of life. Thus, whatever advantages are enjoyed by the winners in the competition are condemned as unfair \u2014 a violation of equality \u2014 and from this emerges a politics of envy called \u201csocial justice.\u201d We see this, for example, in demands for \u201cfree\u201d health care and \u201cfree\u201d college tuition. Because more affluent people can afford to pay cash to send their kids to Harvard, according to this egalitarian \u201csocial justice\u201d mentality, it is <em>unfair<\/em> that less fortunate people are effectively excluded from elite schools or, if they can gain admission to Harvard, must borrow money to attend.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It says &#8220;all men are created equal\u2026&#8221;. It does not mean they will stay that way. Equality of outcome is NOT a feature of a free society.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/theothermccain.com\/2019\/11\/04\/the-heresy-of-equality\/\">\u2018The Heresy of Equality\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People do not embrace an intellectual abstraction like \u201cequality\u201d because it is self-evidently true, but rather because, as he says, they fear that they are somehow disadvantaged in the competition of life. Thus, whatever advantages are enjoyed by the winners in the competition are condemned as unfair \u2014 a violation of equality \u2014 and from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=4232\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018The Heresy of Equality\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,31,3,17,125,42,102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-enemies-of-the-constitution","category-evil","category-crybullies","category-democrats","category-freedom","category-snowflakes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}