Reply #31: "smarter" and "prettier" and "more artistic" and "more emotional"(?) do NOT make people unequal ...

[TahitiNut]

... EXCEPT as objects or commodities to be bought, sold, traded, rented, or EXPLOITED by someone who views a human being in such a way.

That ANYONE would commoditize another human being according to characteristics that merely change how USEFUL they might be to another demonstrates how deeply and thoroughly such objectification ("pretty'?) and commoditization has corrupted the very ways in which we regard one another.

One of the more noxious and noisome aspects of such corruption is the very inability we have of seeing it in ourselves. Those who can only detect it when they themselves feel its impact are a demonstration of how corrupting it is. When I point out (as I've tried to do several times) that sexism and racism are BOTH subordinate to such objectification, there's a brain-dead silence. Yet this is exactly what rots our society today and not merely one subordinate "my ox is being gored." We see it in spades in our so-called "immigration debate." It seems almost boundless.