Equality?

There are many things to praise the cause for equality. But how can we all be equal? And equal to what?

There are those people amongst us who seem to want to wipe the card clean and all of us to treated the same. This is a plausible idea but will inevitable isolate others.It is certain that if we take from one side of the equation the other is unbalanced.
How can we put right the inequalities of the past at one stroke? To be rich is to have some people poor.

If we called in all the community's assets and shared them out it would not be long before some people would have more than others. So why try to put right what is a natural phenomenon?