How dare you seek to have the best chance in life!

So my last post was the definitive guide to class difficulties in the UK. It is excellent, I'm very pleased with it. As I read the Times article suggesting that private schools should be banned, I just wish everyone in Britain could read it (I imagine Google does too, but for different reasons).

It appears that in the wonderful world some people think equality is more useful than, well utility come to think about it. The concept that going to a school with other bright people gives you an advantage and that is unfair, so it is better to send us all to mixed school so we can all be equally stupid. It makes society worse, but at least it will suck for everyone, not just the few at the bottom of the pack.

It reminds me of what Jeremy Clarkson once said: 'socialists don't like helping the poor half as much as they like hurting the rich'. It appears he is a wise man. Grouping children together on how much their parents care about education is going to give the ones who do care an advantage over those whose parents don't. Those who are grouped in high level schools are going to have an advantage over those who are late developers and are therefore not put in high level schools. But this brings up a question, which is more important: everyone having exactly the same, or having a wholly functioning, intelligent civilised society that can support itself and those in it?

If everyone having the same is so essential then there are a few other changes that need to be made.

Parents should no longer bring up their children.
Some parents are smart others are thick, some are workaholics some are alcoholics. This isn't equal therefore all children should be brought up by the state.

Money
That is easy, time for Communism people it doesn't matter how hard you work or if your co worker is lazy, you should always be paid the same.

Intelligence
Some are born smarter than others, so not fair! If someone is more intelligent then they should be forced to drink until they kill enough brain cells so that we're all equally thick.

Good looks
We don't all look like Brad and Ange, so good looking people ought to start being forced to wear paper bags over their heads... that way everyone is equal

Hormones and fitness
Some of us have high testosterone and serotonin others have low, this isn't fair, it effects how we look, how fit we are, how strong we are, how much discipline we have. It makes a whole lot of sense to force the strong fit and healthy to smoke themselves into a state of bad health so everyone is on the same platform, after all some gifted people are so smug as to make use of their talents and succeed in sports and athletics. This is obviously unfair on those who spent their lives failing to move from the settee and so it must be rectified. After all think of when they go for a job, they will have less extra curricular activities on their CV!

This is of course an exercise in reductio ad absurdum, but nonetheless hopefully it makes a point. We are all different and life cannot be made 'fair' by state intervention. Sure we can help those at a natural disadvantage but some people are always going to have more opportunities than others. If we take that away from those people we're not helping anyone else, we're just confining our country to mediocraty and sending us back to the stone age.