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| sparsha |
Posted
on 06-Jul-01 04:19 PM
Inequalities in life is certain. There is absolutely noway one can have equalities in life. For every abstract thing equality is just a word, it can never be defined with any universal defination. We can always talk about ideal things but not all of them are practical. As we all know society is made up of people and people have different mind. Can anyone tell me where in the world is there equality? I am not talking about physical/material aspect (sure, one kilogram of suger is/should be equal on all scales). There are inequalities based on castes, race, knowledge, wealth, religion... you name it. Here in the US, we say there is no caste system but do all US people feel equal? I had some friends from Africa who always talked about inequalities in life (mostly based on wealth). Biswo/Trailokya been to China and they probably are better source to talk about inequalities in China (a communist nation...we all (probably) familiar with Marx's idea of classless society that he envisioned in communism which never realized and will never realized, I strongly beleive). We all have different mind, different patterns of thought. We are different from each other in many many ways (yes, we have similarities, too).
I am remembering an idea of Plato. He was also concerned about the inequalities in life. He suggested that as soon as the babies are born they should be seperated from their parents and either party should never know about each other. He thought by doing that some sort of equality will exist. If A is a judge and B (the son of A)is an accused in a crime then A will be reluctant to punish B. But if A has no clue who B is except B is an accused then A will deliver impartial justice, this is what Plato thought. Critics called Plato's thought
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| sparsha |
Posted
on 06-Jul-01 04:59 PM
Sorry, somehow the posting got cut off. I didn't save what I wrote. I wonder why the posting got cut off.
sparsha
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| Reetu |
Posted
on 06-Jul-01 05:54 PM
hi sparsh,
let me push you ahead at some extent and pull you back at same row but i do not try to make you pendulum at all...
>Inequalities in life is certain. There is
>absolutely noway one can have equalities in
>life. For every abstract thing equality is
>just a word, it can never be defined with
>any universal defination.
natural science defines that when equal proportion exists in both sides, there may not have tendency to change, means equilibrium exists. so, you can not proportionate among the lives, i mean life is itself an abstract. it runs with stock and flow variables of economy. my opinion, no universal definition unless you assume
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| Reetu |
Posted
on 06-Jul-01 05:56 PM
hi sparsh,
let me push you ahead at some extent and pull you back at same row but i do not try to make you pendulum at all...
>Inequalities in life is certain. There is
>absolutely noway one can have equalities in
>life. For every abstract thing equality is
>just a word, it can never be defined with
>any universal defination.
natural science defines that when equal proportion exists in both sides, there may not have tendency to change, means equilibrium exists. so, you can not proportionate among the lives, i mean life is itself an abstract. it runs with stock and flow variables of economy. my opinion, no universal definition unless you assume
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| Reetu |
Posted
on 06-Jul-01 05:58 PM
i am getting difficulties posting all the comments on sparsha's posting...
Reetu...
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| GR Bhattarai |
Posted
on 06-Jul-01 06:08 PM
Reetu,
Most of the times the posting disappeared after a double inverted comma. Like "This".
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| Trailokya Aryal |
Posted
on 06-Jul-01 11:21 PM
I agree with SparshaJI.
There's no equality anywhere. Egalitarian form of society, which Marx envisioned and which Bellamy retold wonderfully in his novel, Looking backwards, does not work in the real world. Inequalities exist in every walk of life.
Even in a communist/socialist nation like China, there's no equality. There's always a group that gets most, and there are others who end up getting nothing. Such is life, even in China.
There are people who can spend 1000s of dollars on liquors and there are otehrs who have a hard time spending a quarter on baut-zi (chinese bun).
Trailokya
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| Biswo |
Posted
on 07-Jul-01 12:34 AM
I was waiting Sparsha's comment to be finished. Yet, we all started before he could finish his comments.
In China, inequality is more manifested today in economic terms.
Eventhough economic inequality was not so clear in Mao's era,
such equality in deed existed. There was difference between the
ruling class in Beijing and the dying farmers in Sichuan.
Not only that, around 1955, Engineers were in demand, and they
used to command 250 Yuan per month. Other laborers used to command
only 30 Yuan per month then.
Communism, as one of my fellow communist friend once protested, is
not about absolute equality. It is about making inequality among
people as least as possible.(I don't endorse this statement. I
just stated it here.)
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| Bagdogra |
Posted
on 08-Jul-01 10:37 AM
So, because there is no equality in the world we, as nepalese people, should accept how the caste system has/will affect our society?
We already have class inequality which was further enhanced by our learned forefathers by not allowing the jan sadharan to be educated en masse. Hence, inadvertently affecting the system that we now have! A whole pack of educated bahuns - which by the way, like I mentioned before, is NOT a coincidence.
With this in view - the non-bahuns, the underdogs, us who feel dominated by upper jat-bhais QUIT COMPLAINING and educate ourselves so our children and grand children enjoy what CAN be a more balanced society. We can strive to be a better breed, can we not????
Cheers
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