Equality of opportunity, i.e. being left alone to your own devices to succeed or fail on your own.
We have understood the difference between equality of opportunity (i.e. true equality) vs. equality of outcome (i.e. equity, communism, etc.) for thousands of years.
The first allows the cream to rise to the top and built the western world.
The second stifles excellence out of a desire for everyone to end up equal because no matter how hard you try, you can't make dumb lazy people successful, so the only way to force equality is to punish the successful.
He's talking about equal outcomes there. If earth and humanity were not flawed, all would be equal in a divine sort of way, but since that's not the case, it's not possible in reality.
So what is the second kind he means? It's easy to assume "equality under the law" as classical liberals believe, but somehow I doubt it.
Equality of opportunity, i.e. being left alone to your own devices to succeed or fail on your own.
We have understood the difference between equality of opportunity (i.e. true equality) vs. equality of outcome (i.e. equity, communism, etc.) for thousands of years.
The first allows the cream to rise to the top and built the western world.
The second stifles excellence out of a desire for everyone to end up equal because no matter how hard you try, you can't make dumb lazy people successful, so the only way to force equality is to punish the successful.
The male ideal of equality vs the female ideal of equality
He's talking about equal outcomes there. If earth and humanity were not flawed, all would be equal in a divine sort of way, but since that's not the case, it's not possible in reality.