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2006-09-08 16:54:56 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government Politics

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Our lives might all be equally valuable but we are not all treated equally by each other. Good looking people for example tend to be treated better than ugly ones. That is not due to a flaw of character on the part of the onlooker. It is due to neurochemical processes in the brain. When seeing a pretty or at least very pleasant face our pleasure centers light up and we a better disposed toward the source of that pleasure. This appears to be true regardless of gender, it even applies to toddlers. When a small child is shown pictures of pretty face her face lights up, she smiles and looks at the picture longer than she would an ugly one. This is according to the neuroscientists who's material I have read in the last few years.

2006-09-08 17:06:45 · answer #1 · answered by scarlettt_ohara 6 · 1 0

NO

Any attempt to portray people as being 'equal' is by it's very nature erroneous. We are not equal we are all unique that by nature makes us unequal, think about it.

Now as far as rights and so on yes we are equal under the law, however, as far as us being created equal we are not. For instance when a westerner reads he interprets what he reads with a specific part of his brain on the right hemisphere, when an easterner read he interprets it with the left hemisphere by it's very nature the one is analytical the other creative (in broad strokes) so even if we read the same words we can't possibly interpret them in the same way because we analyze them using aspects of our brains that are designed to do different functions. We are not equal.

2006-09-08 23:55:59 · answer #2 · answered by Eli 4 · 2 1

Certainly - we are all endowed with equal rights - which, as it says in the declaration of independence, are "self-evident."

In particular, I believe we all have the right to be treated equally before the law.

I would love to see equality of opportunity as well, but the rough approximation we have managed to achieve in the world so far will have to suffice for now.

Hopefully, no one will confuse "equality" with "similarity." People can be equal but dissimilar.

2006-09-09 00:49:05 · answer #3 · answered by Steve 6 · 1 0

Only in some of our motivations, such as to defend our own lives as any healthy organism would.

Hang on... some humans are stupid enough to be talked into not defending their lives.

2006-09-08 23:58:29 · answer #4 · answered by speakeasy 6 · 1 0

Yes... they are created that way... equal doesn't mean the same tho.

2006-09-09 00:00:31 · answer #5 · answered by lordkelvin 7 · 0 0

HY HONS GAY PATTNERS DAVVEEY AND STEEVIE HONS YES WE ARE NATURALLY EQUALLY ALL THE WAY!

2006-09-08 23:58:29 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

anatomically yes. mentally no.

2006-09-08 23:59:09 · answer #7 · answered by C J 4 · 1 0

We all breath.

2006-09-08 23:56:54 · answer #8 · answered by Emm 6 · 2 0

HELL YEA...AFTER THAT ITS ALL ENVIRONMENT,MONEY, AND CONNECTIONS...

2006-09-08 23:56:43 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1 1

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