It is a Sin to Write This

As defined by Ayn Rand in her significant work Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution, equality “means equality before the law, the equality of fundamental, inalienable rights which every man possesses by virtue of his birth as a human being, and which may not be infringed or abrogated by man-made institutions, such as titles of nobility or the division of men into castes established by law, with special privileges granted to some and denied to others” (144). Equality de jure is a pivotal motion that proceeds to grant each individual rights of opportunity.

Capitalism is implemented to allow all castes including “institutions of aristocracy and of slavery or serfdom” to excel or advance (Rand, 171). Without this capitalistic approach to government, and instead administration directed by the crusade of egalitarian proposal, are human beings granted the means to achieve happiness? Is inequality abolished when the form of our government is converted into an altruistic regime of absolute equality? The answer is no. Capitalism entails that each individual is entitled to personal business and investments. When an all inclusive blanket of egalitarian rule is placed upon a nation, distinguished faculties of opinion and ideas are extinguished.

Rand wrote, “..The egalitarians’ view of man is literally the view of a children’s fairy tale- the notion that man, before birth, is some sort of indeterminate thing, an entity without identity, something like a shapeless chunk of human clay, and that fairy godmothers proceed to grant or deny him various attributes: intelligence, talent, beauty, rich parent, etc.

These attributes are handed out “arbitrarily”, it is a “lottery” among pre-embryonic non-entities, and- the supposedly adult mentalities conclude- since a winner could not possibly have “deserved” his “good fortune”, a man does not deserve or earn anything after birth, as a human being, because he acts by means of “uncleserved, “unearned’ attributes” (Philosophy, Who Needs It, 110). To stifle ones attributes in the advance toward complete equality is weakening the species’ growth as a whole, which in turn, depreciates the power of human volition. If it is thought by egalitarian creed that all humans are born with base worth, yet it is also intended that humans are born with differentiating capacities and strengths, why are these differences intrinsic and gradually apparent through age? When these attributes are given opportunity to apply varying potentials in areas of society, the crusade of that nation is nourished. It is preposterous to deem humans beings equal without equality of opportunity.