Equality Is Not a Promise

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People like simple words.
“Equal.”
“Free.”
They sound clean. Finished.

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Reality is not interested in sounding clean.

If equality were real, it would not need to be explained.
It would not need laws, speeches, or blood.
It would simply exist, the way gravity does.

But it doesn’t.

Life begins with a quiet verdict.
Not spoken, just decided.
Some lives are treated as valuable.
Others as replaceable.

No announcement is made.
Everyone pretends not to notice.

War proves this best.
Wars are not chaos.
They are organized, signed, justified.
The suffering is not an accident,
it is a cost that was accepted in advance.

Children are not collateral.
They are proof.

People ask why many don’t believe in God.
They assume rebellion, arrogance, anger.
It is none of those.

I think it’s simply because many people don’t trust what allows this much pain and still can call itself merciful.

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Maybe there is a creator.
Maybe there isn’t.
Both ideas demand faith.

Humans are not born free.
They are born owned.
By borders.
By history.
By expectations placed on them
before they can speak.

You can spend your entire life
trying to earn freedom,
someone else received by accident.

People say, “That’s just how the world is.”
They say it calmly.
As if accepting injustice
is a form of wisdom.

It isn’t.
It’s convenience.

Equality will never arrive on its own.
Not because humans are evil,
but because comfort dulls responsibility.

No higher power will intervene.
No moral arc will bend itself.

If anything small changes,
it will be because someone chose discomfort
over obedience.

Maybe meaning isn’t given.
Maybe it’s built
by refusing to look away
when looking away is easier.

Equality is not natural.
That’s why it matters.

Not as a belief.
Not as a slogan.

But as a decision
made again and again
in a world that benefits
from choosing otherwise.