Damus
March 16th profile picture
March 16th
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>equal opportunity to [found a nation]
what do you mean by this?
>i should get to do this thing my ancestors did while fighting a war on three fronts viz. against barbarians, the unrelenting reality of scarce resources, and the human condition itself
>but i should not be impeded by any other human being in this goal
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>equal opportunity to speak on the affairs of your society
this is plainly a mutex with the former point. if you can found your own nation, and you choose not to, you should absolutely be subject to whatever the norms of conduct are in your own nation.

overall i tend to agree with you:
>it is natural to say the fourteen words with s/white/$RACE/ for your race
>societies founded on that basis will be much healthier
>it is wise for a society to permit people who have stake in it to complain, not only because of that stake but because of local knowledge, personal insight, etc.

but i think framing this as equality is a fatal mistake. that word is a wedge that will be used to widen and deepen these beliefs as they transmit from generation to generation.