Examples Of Equality 7-2521
Despite Equality 7-2521's apparent ascent into enlightenment through the discovery of the word "I", he still has not achieved the attitude of a perfect person. Growing up in a society where individualism is considered the root of all evil, Equality is forced to confine himself into the restraints of a collective society. After escaping from these restrictions and coming to the realization that there is more to life than just living to serve one another, Equality attempts to judge the leaders of the state for instilling the word "We" into everyone's vocabulary while taking out "I". He deems this to be an immoral action because he feels this restricts everyone's freedom, however, since he never experienced the time before the word was forbidden
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Equality 7-2521 speaks of the Unmentionable Times, a time during which the world yet he does not know what occurred during those years and that this decision to become one fully collective society, may have saved the community from being dangerously self-serving. In speaking about the word "We", Equality states, "It is the word by which the depraved steal the virtue of the good, by which the weak steal the might of the strong, by which the fools steal the wisdom of the sages." (97) In Equality's mind, "We" allows for the leaders to take away any and all good morals of the others. If this is true, then he would believe that no good morals exist within the community, with all the leaders having an immoral character and stealing the good morals of all others. is However, Equality still has no place to denounce the leaders on moral terms due to the fact that what Equality may believe as immoral, the leaders may believe as moral. While Equality believes that forcing society to work as one collective unit with no individuality is immoral, the leaders believe it is moral, because it allows for everyone to work together to produce a stable society. It is a matter of opinion in what is moral or not, therefore Equality is not able to judge the leaders without having been in the leaders
Equality 7-2521 speaks of the Unmentionable Times, a time during which the world yet he does not know what occurred during those years and that this decision to become one fully collective society, may have saved the community from being dangerously self-serving. In speaking about the word "We", Equality states, "It is the word by which the depraved steal the virtue of the good, by which the weak steal the might of the strong, by which the fools steal the wisdom of the sages." (97) In Equality's mind, "We" allows for the leaders to take away any and all good morals of the others. If this is true, then he would believe that no good morals exist within the community, with all the leaders having an immoral character and stealing the good morals of all others. is However, Equality still has no place to denounce the leaders on moral terms due to the fact that what Equality may believe as immoral, the leaders may believe as moral. While Equality believes that forcing society to work as one collective unit with no individuality is immoral, the leaders believe it is moral, because it allows for everyone to work together to produce a stable society. It is a matter of opinion in what is moral or not, therefore Equality is not able to judge the leaders without having been in the leaders