"If people are different then that's a hierarchy, checkmate anarchists" = truly the most lazy dipshit line conservatives have.
1) Difference is not domination. What we oppose is relationships that constrain net choice. "Social hierarchies" are not any axis of difference.
2) Conservatives are trying to endorse a ladder of merit, where insofar as folks differ at all, some are better at X. And sure, if there's a objective good to strive towards, some will probably get further than others. But this doesn't imply we can *measure* such objectively.
Some misguided anti-authoritarians go down the postmodern path and deny there's any objective / universal good so as to avoid hierarchy.
But the more realistic path is to say *we as a society cannot functionally measure an individual's personal success towards The Good*
Further, individuals inherently occupy incredibly unique personal contexts with distinct opportunities to Do Good. It is completely possible for every individual to have accomplished equal amounts of Good, but in radically unique and *different* ways / paths / expressions.
3) I've been speaking in terms of The Good because it helps drive home that what conservatives are *really* talking about isn't that. They're talking about seizing power / status / wealth in capitalism.
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