Life must be held dear. Those who are born into this world need to be healthy, clothed, sheltered and fed but also given the same starting point as anyone else. Otherwise we are a species who prides itself on the chaos of barbarism instead of reasoned logic. What we have today is a mixture of both barbarism and reasoned logic but the mixture is beginning to favor the barbarism as a popular ideal. This dismays me in that barbarism has had no success in modernizing and advancing an enlightened society. The history of barbarism has changed over time as laws have civilized it's worst effects but what remains are the selfish, survival of the fittest concepts. It seems that a portion of our society believes that this provides motivation for all to achieve to greater heights. What is not considered though is that most everyone starts from different stations in life. When those stations are at the bottom of our economic ladder, the ability to measure up becomes exponentially more difficult when measured to those who are at the top of the ladder. Strictly by having greater resources have the wealthy been able to maintain a higher rate of success and the less well off having little success in attaining a balanced education, with equal opportunity, in order to improve their station. The logic is indisputable as to success for the wealthy and them having a greater chance to achieve in life as opposed to the little success for the not wealthy in life. What I believe to be a strived for goal for our species is to treat birth rights the same for everyone. We must create a system that places equal value for every human. I do not necessarily know what the system will look like but the effect should have an equal footing for all who are human. Working backwards from the effect seems to be a logical way to create a system for living and I for one am willing to help get us to an equal opportunity scenario.
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