All is equal

[yopele]

@Murdoc

To be completely honest, the inspiration for this thread came out of teen angst. I was just tired of people being better than me. Consequently, I tried to create some justification for me being equal with everyone else. Thanks to all who participated, it has evolved past simply teen angst.

Sadly, Murdoc, most people don’t ever grow out of the teen angst of being tired of people being better than they are. Instead they create alternate realities in which no one is better than anyone else - and they convince the public that such is the case. You made a huge step if you’ve realized that such an effort is futile. Some people are simply better people than other people - when “people” or “person” is objectively defined.

This is not to say that you can’t overcome yourself and be better than what you were - only that someone will probably beat you in becoming the better human. Why fret?!? You now have a goal. You can attack it in a directed fashion – make yourself better suited to a specific purpose – or generally, and make yourself a better overall human. 6 billion people - why should you be the cream of the crop?

[Alun_Aedicita]

@Murdoc

Null sets cannot be equal; they don’t exist.

If they don’t exist, how would I describe one?

Sorry, I wasn’t specific enough; a null set doesn’t have any contents that exist. It is an empty set.

@Murdoc

Every firework’s color is eventually nothing (just as every life ends in death), does that mean every firework is actually the same color?

No. It means that every firework eventually ends in death.

Some fireworks are bigger and brighter than others but they all end in death.

Hence my analogy; you are saying that a person cannot be different/better/worse than another because they’ll both die eventually.

Dan~, lol.

@yopele

Some people are simply better people than other people - when “people” or “person” is objectively defined.

Objectively defined? How would we objectively define anything, least of all ourselves?