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**nabsgood** · 07-28-2006, 08:00 AM

A real test of treating people equally is when you live in a middle class neighborhood where people of a poorer class are starting to move in. Given that your home is likely your biggest investment and you moved in that home years before expecting to sell it at a nice profit (say, to help finance your children's education after they move out), do you stay to uphold your principle of equality to the new neighbors or do you move to preserve your home's sell value? The sad truth is that even many liberal-minded people have chosen to move out when faced with this situation.

Pear, can you see why the real world can get in the way of achieving the goal of equality? And hopefully you now see the difference between the views of the idealists and the realists.

07-28-2006, 08:00 AM	#14
nabsgood Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 385 Senior Member	A real test of treating people equally is when you live in a middle class neighborhood where people of a poorer class are starting to move in. Given that your home is likely your biggest investment and you moved in that home years before expecting to sell it at a nice profit (say, to help finance your children's education after they move out), do you stay to uphold your principle of equality to the new neighbors or do you move to preserve your home's sell value? The sad truth is that even many liberal-minded people have chosen to move out when faced with this situation. Pear, can you see why the real world can get in the way of achieving the goal of equality? And hopefully you now see the difference between the views of the idealists and the realists.
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