However, looking at the reality, we still need to make great efforts to truly achieve equality.
For example, although we talk about "everyone is equal before the law" every day, many cases disclosed by the media tell us that sometimes, although the legal principles are in the hands of people wearing cloth clothes, it is difficult to complain, it is difficult to go to court and it is difficult to win a lawsuit. Why? Because officials and ordinary people will not be very equal before the law, celebrities and ordinary people will not be very equal before the law, rich and poor people will not be very equal before the law, talented and talented people will not be very equal before the law, people with and without backgrounds will not be very equal before the law, and people with power and influence will not be very equal before the law ... Although we say "everyone is equal before the truth" every day, the reality is that "truth" is often in the hands of powerful people. The bigger the official, the more "reasonable" it is, and the phenomenon of "officials crushing people to death" is by no means unique. For example, although we say every day that equality is everyone's inalienable natural right, the reality is that men look down on women and urban people look down on rural people. For example, a slogan was posted somewhere in Beijing: "Migrant workers are forbidden to go to the toilet, and offenders will be fined 50 yuan." Migrant workers don't even have the right to go to the toilet. How can we talk about equality? ! In some places, men and women can't get equal pay for equal work, and some enterprises and institutions without gender restrictions also shut women out when recruiting employees ... In short, everyone has different opportunities and rights. For example, we call for equality between men and women all day. In fact, it is much more equal now than before liberation. However, after careful analysis, have we really implemented the "equality of human dignity and value between men and women, and equality of rights, opportunities and responsibilities between men and women" as stated in the Mexican Declaration? It should be based on the following five categories and 20 indicators-female health status, that is, female infant mortality rate, female reproductive age mortality rate, female life expectancy and the difference between female and male life expectancy; Marriage and childbearing status refers to the proportion of early marriage, total fertility rate, contraceptive rate and divorce and separation rate; The education status refers to the enrollment rate of school-age girls, the proportion of female college students and the difference in education level between men and women; Employment status refers to the proportion of women's self-employment, employment in government departments, the proportion of professional and technical personnel and the proportion of receiving various wages; Social equality refers to women's economic equality, political and legal equality, marriage and family equality and social equality between men and women. There is no gender discrimination against women in society, and our society is still far from the indicators of developed countries.
For example, now everyone is saying that social polarization is serious, the rich are too rich and the poor are too poor. What is the reason? Wu Jinglian, a famous economist in China, said the essence: "The widening income gap in China is mainly due to the inequality of opportunities." Unequal opportunity provides a source of abnormal income and corrupt income. For example, the rent-seeking activity in the process of corruption is to use power to create income, which is most prominent in the examination and approval system such as license, material distribution and listing indicators. In the process of redefining state-owned assets, those in power can easily eat and embezzle public property by taking advantage of the inequality of opportunities. Therefore, the inequality of opportunities also widens the income gap. These phenomena at least show that it is not easy to achieve real equality at this stage. People should be equal and learn to be equal. As some scholars have pointed out, we can't give the right to use the slogans of "freedom", "equality" and "fraternity" to capitalist countries. Socialism should achieve true freedom, equality and fraternity higher than capitalism. How to achieve equality between people?
The key for an official to learn equality lies in who he is for. If you are an official for cloth and people, then he will think that being an official is just a different division of labor. If it's nothing, you will be treated equally. If an official is only for himself and his own power, it may be: bullying and exploiting the lower class, kowtowing to the upper class, and equality will only stay in the official's declaration.
The rich should learn to be equal. At present, poverty and wealth exist objectively, but some rich people, who let money burn, have endless desires and want to do anything, believe in the fallacy that "money makes the mare go", and their words and deeds are strongly branded with the trace that "money makes the mare go". Why? Because they think that the standard to measure right and wrong is not truth, but the amount of money, so people can't talk about equality and inequality. Celebrities should learn to be equal. What's your name? When a person makes a certain contribution to society, society gives him a spiritual prestige and honor. Therefore, fame is not a privilege of superiority, nor is it a right that can be used to run amok. However, some celebrities have misinterpreted it. They just want to put on the airs and styles of celebrities, lose their temper easily, don't abide by public morality, do everything possible to evade taxes, and treat the law as a child's play ... Such celebrities are certainly not equal. Rich people should learn to be equal. Some employers recruit people to let female college students wear "three-point" clothes, and let female college students answer "If customers let you go to bed, do you have the spirit of sacrifice?" ! The examiner's reason is that it looks noble for the sake of career and the interests of the unit, but in fact it is at the expense of infringing on people's privacy and other basic human rights. This is a very obvious "bullying the weak", a blasphemy against human nature, and a blatant blasphemy in the name of nobility! You can insult others because you have "status"? ! You can invade people's privacy if you have "salary"? ! Pretending to be a charity just exposes the inequality of personality, a barbaric personality discrimination.
Snobbers should learn to be equal. The villain must be snobbish, and snobbery is the "patent" of the villain. The concept of snobbery is extensive and complex. Be greedy and snobbish; Bullying the weak and fearing the hard is snobbery; It is snobbish to love the poor and the rich; Being a tiger is snobbish; It is also snobbish to divide people into three or six categories ... in short, snobbery itself is inequality.
So, should ordinary people learn to be equal? I think so. This requires the following: (1) Learn to be fair, and the criteria for evaluating a person and a phenomenon should not be based on a person's identity (such as the size of official position, wealth, and reputation), but on social contracts and social moral standards; (2) Don't treat others with your own likes and dislikes, but try to overcome secular prejudice; (3) The foundation of equality is kindness, so everyone should have the idea that people should be treated as adults because they are human beings (Kant). The people mentioned here are all people, all compatriots, not special people of special groups.