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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: epicure who wrote (112168)5/29/2009 12:14:51 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 541754
 
It is as equal as "separate but equal".

It may be as just as separate but equal (in practice thus being unjust), but its far more equal. Even if separate but equal was a serious attempt to make things equal (and it almost always was not), the separateness is itself a difference. But I'm talking about treatment that's identical, you can't get more equal than that. Within the point under consideration its perfect equality. Its a basic logical and mathematical principle. A=A.

Of course if you give a 70 lb child and an NFL defense tackle the same amount of heavy lifting to do, your also treating them identically/equally. "Equal" doesn't imply that your treating people the right way, or even that you avoiding abuse or injustice.
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