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I know and I didn’t give you that look because what you said was wrong. I liked the post.
When I said, “our liberty should be guaranteed by a just system of laws that apply equally to all” I had already implied that it isn’t that way but that’s what we should strive for.
I’m well aware that the world is fucked up and far from ideal. I’m knee deep in it.
And I agree with the premise. I'm developing the point, not arguing against you. IMO, we need laws, a state, police, military as functions. Any talk of rights without these things is just pants-on-head Libertarian talk. Citizens of different states have different rights, so there. But the Libertarians would say something like ''oh they still have their inalienable rights, they just don't have the use of them'' which is about as masturbatory as it gets. I just want to take the conversation further than ''equality before the law,'' to examine what that actually means in practice.
Another conversation direction that I haven't seen pursued which is related to ''equality before the law,'' is ''equality of opportunity.'' IMO, there's maybe a couple of @AgonyandIrony 's more radical friends who might actually believe in equality of opportunity once it's all accounted for. But I've never seen anyone challenge the Roe Jogans of the world on this point.