>I misspoke - values may be part of it, but it goes deeper than that.
>You projected that they should want what you want, that their actual desires are somehow not valid.
>Some people like goats and chickens.
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>I think that poor Victor is missing the point that when we were promised life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, we were promised equal opportunity. We were not promised equal outcomes. IMHO. he believes that all children should get a trophy merely for participating.

Actually I don't think we were even "promised equal opportunity" except by the left.

During my senior year of high school I was mopping floors while my cousins were filling out their applications to Harvard.
I think that had a lot to do with their father working at his business and my father eating in soup kitchens.

So what?
The only way to equalize starting positions would be to tear them down from their relative privilege.
That would not be fair to my uncle who worked hard and EARNED advantages for his kids.
Bravo for him.

I think we were promised more like "equality before the law."