Are all people created equal?

1.) Are all people created equal?

Created by whom? Americans don’t even agree on who created them. How, then, can we know if we are created equally? I think that the real question is ‘are we all born equal?’

Are we all born equal?

Absolutely not.

How can a child born to a single mother on welfare be equal to a child born with “a silver spoon in their mouth”? From its first breath of air the latter child is gifted with a much brighter future. Top quality medical care, a last name with a reputation, a more stable family, three meals a day, better schools, better neighborhoods, and an opportunity to get a secondary education. The former child? Born into a family struggling to make ends meet, probably, to some degree, a non-existent father, drug-ridden neighborhoods plighted by violence and gang affiliation, poor schools, reliant on welfare for food, and staggering statistics that all but guarantee nothing will change. To say all people are equal is simply an ignorant statement. How can a gay couple be equal to a straight couple when the latter couple can marry and the former can’t? How can all people be equal when a bachelor lawyer makes five hundred dollars an hour while the kid who has to support his family makes 5 dollars an hour at the local fast food restaurant? Nobody is equal, and nobody ever will be. It is simply impossible for all people to be equal. The following conditions would have to be met in order for citizens to claim every infant has an equal opportunity in life: equal pay, equal respect, equal schools, equal intellectual interests, equal social status, equal political standing, equal medical care, equal anonymity regardless of genes, absolutely no affiliation with stereotypes or biases, and equal freedoms. Even in America not everybody has equal freedoms – there are about 2,300,000 inmates locked away in our country (U.S. Department of Justice). The common words in the after mentioned conditions is clearly equal. Equal everything. This is also known as socialism. Except what I’m suggesting is not. Equal political standing is not true in communism. The opportunity to choose the path of your life is not an option in socialism. Simply put, there is no society that ever has, is, or ever will come remotely close to meeting all these conditions. America is as close as it gets, and even we don’t meet half of these conditions. Stereotypes, unequal opportunities, unequal pay, and unequal schools are just some of the conditions America inevitably suffers from. Unfortunately, there isn’t anything to do about it, humanity is doomed to imperfection. The best thing is to come as close as you can to perfection, even if it barely makes a bleep on the chart of progress. Everything can be improved, but never perfected. Life always has been this way, and it’s inevitable life will always be this way.