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Comment author: wedrifid 20 July 2012 01:36:47PM 0 points [-]

"All men are created equal" is false insofar as looking at the atom configurations: every human is unique (by Quantum Indistinguishability, any non-unique humans are the same human).

Uniqueness does not imply inequality without the additional assumption of a measure of 'value' which it seems the other speaker clearly doesn't share.

Comment author: [deleted] 20 July 2012 07:15:53PM 0 points [-]

On the other hand it is probably true insofar as the CEV Morality Computation says.

'Equal' meaning 'Copy' is false, 'Equal' meaning 'Value in Ethical Utilons' is true.