dk

A superior person wields discretionary power over people, chattel and property in a particular range with determination to become a final cause. A mediocre person has some expertise ordered by the chain of command, so that a mediocre person becomes an efficient or formal cause under the social contract. An inferior person adopts a slave mentality under expansive dogmas to become a material cause.

Still, where dogma fails to comfort people, superiors are justified in the use of brutality and violence that serve to provide a good example. Like the concept of moral slavery the social contract only serves to rationalization the dehumanization of people with a mob mentality therefore is destructive to human dignity. I submit the �rule of law� binds all people equally in the context of propositional attitudes that mean, �my liberty ends where the freedom of others begins". Only in this context can all people be considered equal under the law.

Nowhere357

When a slave becomes a king, does that mean that anyone who thinks people fall into classes of "superior" and "inferior" must in fact be an idiot?

Morality is based on empathy. A healthy dose of positive thinking probably helps.

dk

No, it means a person must first overcome themselves to take the plank out of their own eye before they can see clearly to serve their nieghbor.