“Enforcing equality to compensate for the monstrous unfairness of nature destroys liberty.”

Source: PsyberMagick (1995), p. 42
Context: Enforcing equality to compensate for the monstrous unfairness of nature destroys liberty.
But total liberty leads to various forms of "aristocracy" and decay.
Yet total equality leads to oppressive statism and decay.
However, equality of opportunity leads to a vibrantly chaotic and creative meritocracy.

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