Can We Handle Equality?

My thoughts lie in the idea of equality. I spoke a little about it in Tuesday's class. I feel that there are always people that are striving to make everyone equal. There are so many programs with time and money spent on ways to make everyone equal. My problem with that is the fact that we are not "ready" to be equal. If you think about it, the only ones that generally want to be equal are those that are the "under dog." If we all were really to be equal I think that we would have to change our nature as human beings. Naturally, people want at some point in their lives to feel like they are better than others. There is also the problem that if we all are equal than there is going to be someone that gives up something or does something for someone else. We all cannot do the same things as everyone else, I don't have to go into that, we've spoken extensively about that in class already. But to explain my point that there would have to be sacrifice on the part of some people to the benefit others I ask you think of two children with cups of juice. One of them has more than the other, but they want to be equal. The one with more juice has to give of what he has to the other. As people we all feel that what we work for is ours and ours alone, but if we ever want to live in a state that we all treat each other on the same level, then we need to realize that there will be things that we work for that does not necessarily mean that we ourselves will or even should reap the benefit of it. I'm not saying that we all need to simply do all the work for everyone else, everyone needs to do their part, but if someone else's best is far below another's than I would hope that there is a willingness to give. But I can't help but feel uneasy every time the Woodford or I guess the concept of democracy brings up the need for equality, when I really don't think we realize what that really means.