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Entry: Forbidden Knowledge? Link: http://www.takimag.com/sniperstower/article/forbidden_knowledge#27420 Post contents: McBrown, your pseudointellectual question suffers from a want of clarity. Does it mean, for instance, I should not regard my own children more highly than a stranger's? Am I allowed at least to bring them home with me, into a large home that I've bought through my own efforts, even though it's quite unequal to some other home someone else's child will be brought to? Equality of opportunity is almost as silly as equality of result. We're born unequal, our families are unequal, our environments, schools, geographic location, and so much else is unequal. Perhaps instead of worrying about the mythic goal of equality, we can just try to keep our side of the street clean, do our best by our families and communities, and quit the self-flagellation, shall we? That strikes me as pretty pragmatic, which is what you are supposedly all about when you're not looking for dragons to slay in the name of equality. Sent at: 2008 12 01