N_Fiddledog N_Fiddledog:
BeaverFever BeaverFever:
If you seriously think its ever been the case that everyone starts the race at the same starting point you are naive as fuck.
So tell me something then Mr. Wizard. America led the world to a level of progress civilization had never seen. The poorest westerner has things a middle ages king couldn't dream of. How did that happen? It didn't happen everywhere? It happened in the West.
I say it took a set of ideals where you have the right to the pursuit of happiness among other rights.
You're given gifts at birth - anything from speed or intelligence to rich parents, then you're off. Not every speedy, smart or rich kid makes it but they all start with the right to pursue their happiness providing they recognize their responsibility not to obstruct the rights of others. They start from that starting line.
What would you do? Weight the speedy guy's gym shoes. Make the smart guy take classes from a beaver with a fever? Of course you'd take the rich guy's money but that isn't what made you lucky enough to be born into a world where western ideals created the superior gifts we all enjoy. If you lived by the ideals that made us lucky enough to enjoy the gifts of this advanced civilization what you want to do would put you in jail.
What a load if unintelligible garbage. It’s like you just vomited all over the computer screen.
If you think a rich person and a poor person start life at the same starting line or compete on an equal basis for ANYTHING you are naive as fuck. If you think a black person born in the Jim Crow South started at the same place and had the same opportunities as virtually any white person you are stupid as fuck. If you think a FN person born on a remote fly-in community in the far north, which the government built on floodplain and put the drinking water intake pipe downstream from the sewage outflow pipe you are deluded as fuck.
Your myth of conservative white supermen being handicapped with proverbial “weighted gym shoes” doesn’t happen either it’s just more of your Ayn Randian dystopian fantasy nonsense