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John Hoang
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From the Story of Philosophy's chapter on Voltaire, "equality is at once the most natural and the most chimerical thing in the world : natural when it is limited to rights, unnatural when it attempts to level goods and powers." It's interesting to see the same argument rehashed for centuries.
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Connor McCormick
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While I get the point about equality of outcomes v opportunities, the pragmatics of outcome being an input into opportunity makes this complicated even for Voltaire
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John Hoang
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"Those who say that all men are equal speak the greatest truth if they mean that all men have an equal right to liberty, to the possession of their goods, and to the protection of the laws". I suppose this accounts for what you mean by pragmatics of outcome being an input into opportunity?
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