In an equal world!! do you think that some are destined to fair better than others.?

Answer 1

Yes they would. Presuming that people's circumstances and skill levels are fair but their personalities are different that is.

You have such character traits as ingenuity, ambition, ethics, creativity, positive attitude...all of which are not really gifted to us, and therefore probably couldn't be doled out "fairly"...and those things are also developed by experiences which will make or break people depending on their character.

Even in real life there are examples of this:

A person born with a disability overcomes it to be successful.

A person born in an underprivileged or oppressive country makes their way to a more prosperous or free society.

A person who goes through unfortunate situations keeps their chin up and is blessed in the long run.

In all these situations, there are similar people who have a similar lot in life who don't do as well. There are also a LOT of people who are born into great privilege with the scales undoubtedly tipped in their favor re: potential for success, and they do nothing with it, get greedy and are never content with more, or squander it altogether.

So it doesn't really matter whether life is fair. The way to succeed regardless of what you start with, is to quit whining, learn from your mistakes, do the best you can with what you are given, and count your blessings.

Answer 2

The very word *better* implies that the world you are imagining is not equal!

There's a difference between *equal* and *the same*. People will always have a mix of different skills, abilities, personality traits etc etc. It is how these are perceived and values that makes a society equal or not....
And even if road sweepers were valued/paid the same as company directors, people would choose to spend their resources in different ways. So it would also depend on how you defined *fare better*? Have more material goods? Be able to travel more? Be happier? Be able to exercise more choice? Be treated with more respect?

A complicated question!

Answer 3

A world of equal opportunity does not mean that every person will live to their full potential or overcome the limitations that they are born with. Also, you have to define what success is... Any way you slice it, though, one will fair better than the other. Is it destined? Not always. Sometimes that's for us to decide.

Answer 4

I don't know about destiny, but some people are just better at some things than others. For example, i am good with words but I am very bad at math, and I know people who can solve a theorem in no time, but just can't seem to put together a convincing speech, and I know some people who struggle with everything they do.

An equal world would mean, in my opinion, everyone had equal opportunities, but not everyone would succeed because of circumstances out of their control, such as impaired intelligence, which is genetic and dependent on choices, like doing drugs and killing brain cells, for example.

Answer 5

We are all gifted with certain talents, how ever we utilize them is up to us.
In an equal world there must be a balance. Yin and Yang. There is no existence with out balance. What goes up must come down. But in a perfect world the opposing forces will not be as dominant. Think about it, would we want to do better if we did not have a reason to.

Example.
If blacks were never oppressed in the USA would they have wanted better treatment.

Answer 6

Yes, in an equal world 2s will enjoy more privileges than 1s and no where near as much as 10s. In fact, if the world were equal and fair many of those who complain about how unfair life is would come to find out that in many cases it was unfair in their favor.

Answer 7

Off course. Equality means that everyone gets the same opportunities and is treated in equality of all the human rights. TO LIVE, TO EAT, TO EXPRESS ONESELF, TO HAVE FAMILIES, TO WORK AND GET PAID A JUST RENUMERATION, TO BELIEVE WHAT ONE LIKES, TO HAVE A SOCIAL EXISTENCE, TO BRING UP THEIR CHILDREN THE WAY THEY LIKE AS LONG AS IT IS NOT HARMFUL TO SOCIETY AND OTHERS, FREEDOM OF SPEECH, TO HAVE EQUAL OPPORTUNITY TO OTHER AND A HOST OF OTHER RIGHTS.
You see certain people are born naturally with certain and various degrees of talent and ability. Certain people make certain choices how they will spend their time and how hard and smart they will work. Therefore people will achieve different and varied things. If you restain people or seek to impose an artificial equality then you really have an unequality. Certain people will not be albe to express themselves, excircise their talents and abilities, and have equal opportunity. Others will have too much despite the fact they will not be able to make use of most of it and an artificial so called equality will happen. This just creates chaos and injustice.
You see two wrongs do not make a right. When an injustice is corrected then the correction is not a wrong, it is a right: it corrects an injustice. But in doing so you must make sure of two things. One, that the correction is relevant to the nature of the problem and two, that it is just in relation to the amount of the problem. If you for instance have so called positive discrimination you do not correct a problem. You do not give what is need-EQUAL OPPORTUNITY. You create UNEQUAL OPPORTUNITY. You merely replace tyranny in a blue suit with tyranny in a red suit. What you must do is to make sure everything has equal opportunity. You must replace tyranny in a blue suit with justice in any suit. You must also correct to the relevant amount. If someone steals you imprison them - you don't kill them. Otherwise what's changed? Only the clothes and colour.
So in a just fair and equal world all will be given the basics of a fulfulling life and equal opportunity. All opportunity that they need to sucseed. Not so much it is useless and wasteful. Not opportunity over others. But all equally as all equally human. There is a saying: WE MIGHT NOT BE ALL EQUAL, BUT WE ARE ALL EQUALLY HUMAN. Some are destined to fair better. This is the glory of the human race. That some have some talents and some others, that there is a great variety in charactaristics. This ensures strength and prosperity of humankind. It is what makes us unique. It is what gives incentive and most of all- what makes us human. What we must guard against, and guard against with all our strenght is the habit of treating people with less ability or what we think is less ability-less equally. In the 456 B.C. the plebians of Rome in protest went to a sacred hill and threatened to seceed and found a city of their own. The patricians sent a speaker. He found one plebian particularly argumentive and accused him of being the most useless and using that against him. His metaphore was that of the thumb which he at the time deemed useless. He should have use something different, but still the anology remains. You see it is the thumb that make us unique and makes our hand with such manipulative skill that we have done what we have done.
So we must be carefull. The person whom we disparage today might be among the most useful in the future. This person or their decendents tomorrow might make foolishness of our pride of today. For there is an old saying in the bible: "BOAST NOT OF TOMORROW, FOR WHO KNOWS WHAT TOMORROW WILL BRING".

Answer 8

I would say that people are destined to do better than others when they work harder.

Answer 9

yes, but since it's an equal world, they would then be considered equally commensurate with one another.

Answer 10

well that totally goes against the fact of it being equal!