Are we all created equal? Is everyone born with the same strengths, intelligence, opportunities? NOT AT ALL! No one is equal. If anyone tells you that people are equal, then they are lying. As a swimmer, I see people that don't try at all during practices and still do better than me. I train twice as hard as them, yet they always seem to be stronger. Only the weak wish that everyone was equal because they cannot keep up with people that are greater than themselves. Men are not created equally, and that will never change. All people are different, they all start differently, they will all live differently, and they will all die differently. A person born into a poor family is not equal to a child born into a rich family. A person who is blind will not sense all that a person can sense. It is unfortunate, that some people will live and given a better chance at life than others, but do not go to me and say everyone is created equal. No one person is exactly like another. We must accept what we have and persevere through life and all its pains and suffering. Life is not easy. There will be hardships. There will be struggles. Equality among human beings is impossible. We can work for it all we want, but there will always be the poor and rich. There will always be the strong and the weak. And there will always be the fortunate and unfortunate.
Sunday, October 20, 2013
Freedom
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,
that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,
that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
Are we all created equal? Is everyone born with the same strengths, intelligence, opportunities? NOT AT ALL! No one is equal. If anyone tells you that people are equal, then they are lying. As a swimmer, I see people that don't try at all during practices and still do better than me. I train twice as hard as them, yet they always seem to be stronger. Only the weak wish that everyone was equal because they cannot keep up with people that are greater than themselves. Men are not created equally, and that will never change. All people are different, they all start differently, they will all live differently, and they will all die differently. A person born into a poor family is not equal to a child born into a rich family. A person who is blind will not sense all that a person can sense. It is unfortunate, that some people will live and given a better chance at life than others, but do not go to me and say everyone is created equal. No one person is exactly like another. We must accept what we have and persevere through life and all its pains and suffering. Life is not easy. There will be hardships. There will be struggles. Equality among human beings is impossible. We can work for it all we want, but there will always be the poor and rich. There will always be the strong and the weak. And there will always be the fortunate and unfortunate.
Are we all created equal? Is everyone born with the same strengths, intelligence, opportunities? NOT AT ALL! No one is equal. If anyone tells you that people are equal, then they are lying. As a swimmer, I see people that don't try at all during practices and still do better than me. I train twice as hard as them, yet they always seem to be stronger. Only the weak wish that everyone was equal because they cannot keep up with people that are greater than themselves. Men are not created equally, and that will never change. All people are different, they all start differently, they will all live differently, and they will all die differently. A person born into a poor family is not equal to a child born into a rich family. A person who is blind will not sense all that a person can sense. It is unfortunate, that some people will live and given a better chance at life than others, but do not go to me and say everyone is created equal. No one person is exactly like another. We must accept what we have and persevere through life and all its pains and suffering. Life is not easy. There will be hardships. There will be struggles. Equality among human beings is impossible. We can work for it all we want, but there will always be the poor and rich. There will always be the strong and the weak. And there will always be the fortunate and unfortunate.
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I agree that some people have more capabilities than others, but I believe the term "equality" in the Declaration of Independence refers to the equal rights that are given to men. In your example of swimming, equality would be the fact that both of you have an equal chance/right in being better than the other. In your example of poverty, equality would be the fact that each person, disregarding wealth, has the same natural rights that all men do.
ReplyDeleteYou seem to have a pretty strong opinion on this topic. I agree with you, for the most part--some people are just better at certain things that others. However, like Fawaz, I thought Jefferson meant that everyone deserves the same opportunities. Good post!
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