The View From Common Ground
There is no equality, only the view from common ground.
If we all viewed the world on a flat surface, I think we get a pretty clear picture of equality.
If everyone gathered on an open field to look at the sky, we would all be able to see it. We would see the giants, the big, the small, the average, the fat, the skinny, and even the blind.
To ask the giants to move to the back would deprive them of the spot they got for being early, and to ask them to kneel would deprive them of the miraculous view they could potentially have.
For the blind to ask you to describe it would distract you from enjoying the moment.
If you ask those who brought ladders to come down from them, it would be punishing them for being prepared for the giants and aware that they're small.
You can try to stop people from barging to the front, but you would likely realize in your attempt to stop them, you're barging forward with them.
There would even be those so concerned about fairness and everything that's wrong that they never figured out how to enjoy the view from where they are.
There are advantages that we've earned and disadvantages we don't deserve. There is no equality; there is only how people treat one another.
Because somewhere in the crowd, there is a man with no legs sitting on a giant's shoulders.