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If We Are All Created Equal Why Is There So Much Hate In The World?

Why must there be racists, and homophobs, and sexists? Why, if we are all equal, why do people think lesser of others just because the look different of sound different? Why must we be so afraid of change?


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  • We are...
    We aren't really talking about abilities like walking on water or putting our foot behind out head. We're talking about opinions, rights, and freedoms. We all have them. ALL OF US.

    However, it seems that there are very few places to express them nowadays. Come to America. We like you here.
    Voted for by Oral Fixation.
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  • Simply because...
    not everyone believes that we are all created equally. (In regards to deserving respect) The problems stem from that. And from what others have said in this debate.
    Voted for by looking4realtruth.
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  • A Paradox
    Hello there,

    I respectfully disagree with most of the opinions expressed above. By the look of it, the subject seems to be interesting as it has generated very fruitful discussion.

    Imho, the question itself has to be challenged both in its subjective pretension and its objective contents.

    Firstly, one needs to determine whether we are really 'born' 'equal'. Secondly, what does 'equality' mean anyway. And thirdly, what or how does an evenly equal or egalitarian society has to do with hatred.

    As long as the above concepts are not challenged, the grapevine of opinions will go on in a circular manner. Once challenged, and when the cobwebs of our formal education and culture (in this case literary culture, specifically) are brushed aside , then i predict that the question itself will disintegrate, and it will leave behind paradoxical superstructures (or meme's, in a vague manner) of mental constructs.
    Voted for by Jackymania.
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  • NO EQUAL!!!
    some are reach some are poor some are pretty some are ugly some are clever some are stupid some are handicaped some not! you're speaking of being equal.
    we're just a bit equal by the law..
    but there is so much hate because : it is a part of human nature and because we're not equal..
    Voted for by lake of dremas.
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  • Equal?
    Equality is simply a big lie we are not equal however hate love and all the other concepts that fits are simply because of the thing called neuronalmiror or if you want because of how our body's work simply you meet someone that you feel that you like him and this is simply because your body is creating some kind of chemical thing that makes you love this person and it's somehow because you know that you are better then this person because truly we only love the people that we are better then them and that we feel that we can control them and that's why usually the people that you think are different and your first impression about them was bad you be to them a good friend and you love them and that's simply because you fell sorry about him and he makes you feel better about yourself because you are better then him/her.
    Voted for by white.warior.
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  • eh
    Hate has nothing to do with equality. Being equal under the law doesn't terminate hate, bias, and prejudice.
    Voted for by gene88.
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  • We are never equal
    If we were equal I wouldn't know so many people that kill themselves to be accepted. We are NOT equal, and I have realized that most bad people get all the good luck. Im not saying I'm good, but so many of my enemies; cheaters, players, etc, have won something, while I slowly made my way through hell/school. The world is filled with hate because some people are happier than others, or smarter, or richer, or more loved. Its that simple. We're not equal.
    Voted for by Olinda.
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  • You are confusing a political theory with objective reality
    The idea that we are all created equal is more a political idea (that we should be treated as equal under the law etc.) than a description of reality - I don't think anyone really believes that everyone is literally "equal", in the sense of there being a precise correlation between the attributes of each person with all others. Many, including myself, do believe that everyone should be treated the same under the law and given space to develop their unique, unequal attributes (except where these transgress the bounds of civilised behaviour).

    The reason for hatred and violence in the world is probably just human nature, I don't think it will ever go away, but we can try to manage it and minimise its harms (eg. by bombing Iran's nuclear facilities).

    P. S. By asking why we must be "so afraid of change" what do you mean? No one is afraid of change per se, you have to give content to the word "change" for your question to make any sense. There is a big difference between tax reforms and jihad, for example - though both aim for "change"

    A. H.
    Voted for by Alexander Hine.
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  • Understand this
    It is the United States Constitution that declairs we are created equal, not any type of relegious text, and is an assumption, unfounded, and not based in fact
    Voted for by Dwn.
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  • the unfunniest joke ever told:
    ta da.
    hate is a fear-monger's tool. it has never failed to deliver the desired effect. it serves to alienate mankind from one another. it creates dissonance and dischord. we are a paranoid nation pitted against unfamiliar and strange races.... they are nothing like us. we are american....not even human anymore.

    this is the worst game of Risk ever played.


    racism, predjudice- these are deviations that ran rampant for so long, they have become a mutated form of education. we don't bother because we have accepted it as a constant. change.... oh that's coming. it only requires that we step away.
    as for laws: why heed them? certain laws have come to mean nothing over the cousre of the last 8 years. rights? we had the last of those taken away within the last 4 years. we are unprotected, we are without boundries.....this is anarchy, but behold!!!!!!, an entire nation stands still.
    constructs? whose?
    we are poorly timed punchlines shouted above the din of stale dim-lit dive bars- no one laughs, even if they hear.

    hate is real. equality between all mankind at birth is real.
    question the constructs we are given to swallow, and consider sliding the pill under the tongue and keeping it there until no one is near....
    have the courage to fix this. weakness is not admirable, and will serve to harm what's left of your will.
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