In a bar, three men ordered three different drinks but one is priced higher than the rest. Since equality is their national mantra, the other two men had to reluctantly pay the higher price. The following week, they tried to bend the system by asking for separate checks. But the bartender insisted on following the equality rule. For weeks, the three men brought in more people to support using the lowest price for equality. Fearful of vandalism, the bartender went along, incurring losses, charging the lowest price to them all. Then one day, the men returned to find the bar closed and gone. That’s how it works in communism and how it will end.
The lesson? What’s fair for one may not be for another, whereas differences should not be immediately misconstrued as inequality Prices differ for a reason, just as rainfall differ depending on the time of the year. Indexes like grades, salary, work schedule, promotion, benefits, or needs differ for a reason. Some reasons are beyond one’s control like birth defects or natural calamity. Now, imagine cheese without the alps! But how do you equally parcel out the alps? It’s obvious that variety reflects realities of life. We see it everywhere, and not just for aesthetics. Individual ingenuity is challenged to turn even adversities into spice of life. Given time, if the hands are unshackled, it’s totally possible. In fact, the harder the task, the greater the motivation and the glory attained. We already know there are different degrees of difficulties in life. Nobody is saying we should have equality of difficulties. Most prefer lighter load, with big reward. Like an assembly line chicken for Michelin flavor. When will we ever learn that the goal is not equality of pleasure or wealth. Neither is it power nor access. For even children with access to modern medicine suffer incurable diseases. He dies because he ran out of time. Time is a real asset often ignored. That’s why Jesus promises abundance, not equality. At the core of God’s plan is to enable life to sparkle , and to satisfy which brings justice to human effort and glory back to God. For that, He promises unlimited time, eternity, thru faith in Christ.
Insisting on one size fits all is not justice but lunacy. It’s like insisting everyone order the same drink in the bar. Individual discontent eventually lead to system collapse. Treating the symptom not the root delivers only temporary relief. Respecting differences yield better measures of beneficial control be it culinary or governance. It uses brilliantly simple solution like — what you sow, you shall reap, in time. And there is a time to sow, a time to reap. Those timeless words from the Bible have built civilizations. For all lovers of justice, freedom and truth, it’s not too late. Start with the basics.
Quick check: Complete the sentence: No time to loose. When the solution is well intended but ill defined and too simplistic, the result is ___________. When did this happen to you? Or, when did you this happen?