hypercrites

Quote from: kentay on July 26, 2012, 09:29:58 am

No one human should be born with a silver spoon in their mouth just because of their birth, in my opinion. kentay 

I disagree. If my parents work hard, study hard, take risks, and it pays off for them, why shouldn't they be able to pass their fruits of their labor on to me and my siblings?  Unless I'm misreading you, you think that the government should confiscate the property of all newborns so that all of them have essentially the same net worth?  Did I get this right fellas?

I'm a believer in the notion that all men are created equal.  What I mean by this is that all humans are to be treated by the government as equal.  There should be no laws that favor one person or one group over another.  It doesn't mean that the government has the authority to confiscate wealth from one and give to another.  What it means is that the government (laws) can favor no one individual or group over another.

The perfect example of this is royalty.  In other countries certain families are recognized by law as royal families.  The members of these royal families are granted special privileges by law and anyone disrespecting the royal family is subject to imprisonment.

In the USA anybody and everybody has a chance to become rich.  Most won't.  In countries with kings and queens only members of the royal family can become king or queen.  This is what the founders meant when they said that all men are created equal.  They meant that the law recognizes no kings or queens as a consequence of birth.  They didn't mean that private industry and individuals are prevented from becoming wealthy and famous.  They only meant that the government must not treat the wealthy and the famous differently than they do any other citizen.