Equality In A Tale Of Two Cities

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Equality woohoo! Right? Everybody thinks they want it, everybody thinks they know what it means, but do they? Total equality in society is impossible. One of the big problems causing equality to be is distant dream is humans themselves. In order for there to be total equality, we would all need to have the same mental regard for life. Also, physical differences would have to be eradicated. We will never all be equal mentally. Some might say people could learn to see past other’s mental differences, but this is just not true. People will always suffer from things like selfishness or selflessness, which, in an equal society, would not work because every needs to be equal. Selflessness just like in the book Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens.

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