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Fair enough, please explain.
Given your contributions elsewhere I'm hardly inclined to believe that you're prepared to engage in a substantive conversation about this, thus your drive-by comment.
But if you want to discuss political philosophy I'm certainly willing to do so.
Clearly my position sides, you'll agree, more with Nietzschean anti-egalitarianism and equality being more of a useful value rather than an inherent value and as such it might be in disagreement with the overly broad concept of fundamental equality espoused by the Declaration, but you'll also agree that the Declaration isn't law and has no real bearing on the United States or how its governed beyond being an interesting and important, though essentially impotent, historic document.
So, no, I'm not going to post a new OP.
I'm going to stick with Nietzsche and the U.S. Constitution and argue for the acceptability and even the desirability of inequality.
What???
Well, number one: your quote of the declaration and saying a blind man is not equal is horribly out of context. Secondly, Nietzsche may have written that egalitarianism is mediocre and has no draw, but such a mundane idea is the bedrock of our foundation in the US. We believe it to BE an inherent value and thus a given society based on democratic principles opens up an equal footing. Anti-egalitarianism if found in Objectivism and Darwinism; while Darwin's principle of survival of the fittest is the natural state, Objectivism is a social construct not necessarily base on discrimination.
Society is based on shared value, and thus discrimination goes from a natural phenomena to a social one as Nietzsche also points out which is where anti egalitarianism creeps in and creates social distemper. Now if you are strictly an anarchist, then you live in lonely world, or perhaps you should buy your own country. "Discrimination" as you are describing it however is a personal philosophy and has nothing to do with the declaration.