Guppy 🌹

Then what do you mean by essential? Equality could come about if the party wishing to create it possesses the most force, a purely contingent outcome

1- All life is essential in that it necessarily exists - outside of arbitrary constructs there is no reason to prioritise one life above another. 2- Equality cannot be "created" by any "party" whether you mean that in the sense of a cohesive political body or otherwise.

'All life is essential, now give me the house or there'll be violence'

Your life is not essential in the sense that you are required or sacred. It is essential in the sense that it NECESSARILY exists. You are confusing the two meanings of the word

I thought god necessarily existed, other beings were contingent upon god for their existence (medieval view) it's just a flux of matter and energy, nothing is necessary. Even if it was it wouldn't mean some people can't be rich and others poor

1/ Evidently. Isn't that where we find ourselves today? The question put forward was as to why achieving equality matters. The answer is because it concords with a sensible conception of nature. There is no reason why we should accept the arbitrary hierarchal distinctions which

2/ are imposed upon us, unless we benefit from them. If we do not, there's no reason why we should, and violence is the simplest (really, the only) remedy to that

A sensible conception of nature is that things of complexity and beauty only ever arise through Darwinian processes, equality means everything's equally garbage. Be as violent as you want, though violence tends to breed more not less hierarchy as far as I can see