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Originally Posted by Cherry7
Socialists and Communists do NOT believe all people have equal abilities, they believe that all should have equal rights and opportunities.
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How can you give people "equal opportunities" if they are all different?
To use a saying that once used to be popular on GFY:
"When the wind of change blows, some build walls, others build windmills".
When the wind blows everyone has the same "opportunity", yet everyone will use it differently. As a result, some will make a profit, others will not. What are you suggesting? That after people have taken advantage of a certain opportunity, we should "reset" things so those who made the right call won't have any advantage over those who made the wrong decision?
I'll quote Rothbard again:
Human life is not some sort of race or game in which each person should start from an identical mark. It is an attempt by each man to be as happy as possible. And each person could not begin from the same point, for the world has not just come into being; it is diverse and infinitely varied in its parts. The mere fact that one individual is necessarily born in a different place from someone else immediately insures that his inherited opportunity cannot be the same as his neighbor's. The drive for equality of opportunity would also require the abolition of the family since different parents have unequal abilities; it would require the communal rearing of children. The State would have to nationalize all babies and raise them in State nurseries under 'equal' conditions. But even here conditions cannot be the same, because different State officials will themselves have different abilities and personalities. And equality can never be achieved because of necessary differences of location.
-Murray N. Rothbard