Equality
More or Less
Contributions by Brandon Jason Archuleta, Richard H. Davis, Morten G. Ender, David S. Frey, George W. Gawrych, Robert J. Goldstein, Christopher W. Jacobs, Hugh Liebert, Betsy Lucal, Courtney Morris, Graham Parsons, Darya Pushkina, Shai Secunda, Tehseen Thaver, Dominique Townsend, Robert E. Tully, Bruce Chilton Edited by Robert E. Tully, Bruce Chilton
Publication date:
31 December 2019Length of book:
366 pagesPublisher
Hamilton BooksISBN-13: 9780761871170
Together, the studies reveal both conflicting standards of equality as well as patterns of pernicious inequality. In an ideal world, equality and inequality among humans would vary in acceptable proportion, increase of the one ensuring decrease of the other. Unfortunately, as the studies illustrate, any such expectation of progress in the real world is almost routinely thwarted.
Despite the wide variety of topics, a common thread binds these essays. Human nature seems to harbor a moral deficiency lying deeper than any written laws and those traditional customs which promote inequality and breed injustice. The fault is prominent in those who champion unjust laws or who willingly enforce discrimination but it is no less active in the silent many who condone the practice. The essays reveal the same persistent and unappealing trait which social groups from the remote past to the present manifest in various ways: blind determination to perpetuate whatever advantages one group believes it enjoys over another, convinced that its own members are more equal than theirs. Being made unequal, the others too easily become targets who are considered less worthy, sometimes even less human.