Something’s had me a bit riled up in my mind lately, namely the philosophy put out by equal opportunity folks that all ideas, cultures, etc. are equal in merit.
Long ago, a guy named Hitler thought it was okay to kill innocent people in the name of making the state a stronger entity. Earlier, the U.S. Supreme Court thought that free blacks should not have the same rights as whites.
The potential problems that this poses involves more than the superiority of the idea that ends up on top. Not only does it negate any notion of societal progress (which EO folks would be the first to say has been made), it negates itself. If person A says that all ideas are equal, and person B says that not all ideas are equal, person A’s philosophy then says that person B’s philosophy is of equal merit.
Yes, this has been thought up already, but some people don’t seem to understand it. Let’s take this to a Navy level: Ensign Retard has an idea. His LDO department head says it’s a stupid idea. Ensign Retard counters that both ideas have equal merit.
I don’t intend to put this to the test.
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