Do you believe that all people are equal?

I’m not talking about “equality of rights” here. What I am talking about is whether or not you believe all people are of equal value, worthiness of life, and ability.

I’ve noticed that our society places a great deal of emphasis on the idea that “all are created equal”, but is this so?

Certainly there are people with a greater intellectual aptitude than others, there are also stronger and more physically fit individuals. There are men and women with a strength of will, moral fortitude, and capacity for benevolence and progress, self-discipline and creativity, that far surpasses the more common people. These people constantly perservere through difficult times, forge new paths and define greatness.

In contrast, there are people who live rather mediocre and mundane lives. Who never challenge themselves or achieve anything in their lives. They simply live, day in and day out, the common life. Now I’m not saying there is anything inherently wrong in that, but it does cause one to posit that there is perhaps a gradation of rank in human culture.

Furthermore, this idea becomes even more apparent when you look at the lowest, most base members of our society; people such as rapist, murderers, and drug addicts.

So do you think all people are equal? Of equal worth and value to the human species?