After a little exchange with Matt Q, I think this thread might get a kick start, and what we might be talking about is Egalitarianism.
If you just Yagooglebing that word, you get this:
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e·gal·i·tar·i·an·ism
[ēˌɡaləˈterēəˌnizəm]
NOUN
the doctrine that all people are equal and deserve equal rights and opportunities.
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Well, heck! Don't that sound great! OF COURSE IT DOES. If we were to stick with this very haiku-ishly condensed definition of egalitarianism, then everyone with a little common sense will agree that that's IT.
But Egalitarianism is a weeeee tad more complex, philosophically. Here is the Wikipedia entry on
Egalitarianism.
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To insert my own thoughts, which of course I DID NOT invent, but have derived from my fellow travelers here on Earth:
Equality of opportunity, and equality of rights under the law, and making sure that civil rights apply to each and every human being, whether in infancy, or in [senility] the latter stages of life:
This DOES NOT guarantee equality of outcomes. Due to the great disparity among individuals with regard to ability and effort, there is NO guarantee that there will be equality with respect to outcomes. The ONLY way to ensure equality of outcomes, is through governmental intervention and through restraints on the free market, and through coercion from high places. End of story. C20 was an experiment for the Marxist/socialist/utopian dream. It has been, save for a few spare exceptions, a complete disaster. It has impoverished more people, and endangered more lives, than ANY other social force in history.