I have some questions which I would like you to answer, with the dual purpose of generating discussion and because I have Philosophy tomorrow and you are the only people I can ask at this moment in time.

If all people are equal, should all people be treated the same?


Is it fair to say everyone is in fact equal?


If the concept of equality was replaced primarily by the concept of justice when it comes to human rights, would the world be a better place?

All people aren't equal.

Care to answer the other questions or...

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If all people are equal, should all people be treated the same?

Firstly you have to define by what you mean by treating everyone equal. Equal under the law or equal in some other fashion? Secondly, questions about what we should do are fundamentally different from questions about what there is. Questions about what we should do are answered by ethics, but to know whether or not treating people equally (in whatever fashion that is) creates the largest amount of human happiness is necessarily empirical. You can not just guess, deduce, or whatever method it is to figure out whether or treating people equally is the right path to take.

Creating the largest amount of human happiness has two solutions to it too. Do we lower the standards of one's happiness (say with drugs of some sort) or do conform the world around us to better suit our current standard of happiness?

Okay. I'll rephrase and expand for you.

If all people are equal in the eyes of a society (eg. The christian belief that all are equal-"for you are all one in Jesus Christ"), should all people be treated the same in that society?


Is it fair to say everyone is in fact equal?


If the concept of equality was replaced primarily by the concept of justice when it comes to human rights (as in treating people by their actions and value individually, instead of applying the same base value to everyone), would the world be a better place?

You are overthinking it a tad btw, I just need a short answer I can give my opinion on. I have to write this shit and print it before the morning, and it's 11 now

Seriously, it's you guys or I ask bloody cleverbot. Or re-post this in the flood