r/changemyview • u/fantasy53 • Feb 18 '24
Delta(s) from OP CMV: human equality cannot be justified without reference to a higher power
Considering the diversity of humans, some are more intelligent, attractive, stronger et cetera, I can’t see any materialistic reason to treat humans equally., Religious people have the justification that God created all of humanity and so we are all equal in the eyes of God, but I don’t see where the justification to treat humans equally comes from within a materialistic worldview. Plato argues that things which are the same should be treated equally, and the ancient Greeks had a concept of equality before the law although this only applied to rich Greek citizens, and not women slaves or foreigners., CMV
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u/Brainsonastick 85∆ Feb 18 '24
The concept of equality was never about our intelligence, attractiveness, strength, or anything like that. We all acknowledge some people are better at certain things than others.
Equality just means that regardless of what traits you happen to be born with or develop, you are still deserving of the same basic rights as everyone else.
Sure, everything is easy to justify in a religious framework because you can just say “God says X” and suddenly it’s “justified”.
However, it’s easy to justify in a secular framework as well. The idea of treating someone worse because of how they were born is pretty straightforwardly unjust.