Our very good friend and band mate Brady sent this one in.  Enjoy.

In recognizing equality, we invariably accept some level of responsibility to that those we consider equal. Injustice cannot morally or even logically be committed against one’s perceived equal; to do so would undermine the integrity of one’s own self. Not every individual will be able to maintain this sober of a perspective all the time, so it is a concept enshrined in legal and social systems.

With each new social system, we have gradually extended equality to more and more people. Some 4,000 years ago, it was not uncommon to consider a neighbouring band to be unequal or to or, more bluntly, less human than one’s own. As bands turned to tribes turned to cities turned to kingdoms turned to states, the notion of equality spread between larger and larger groups of people. Though the British Empire was systematically racist and heavily stratified, the Brits generally believed themselves to have equal basic human rights. With this came a sense of responsibility for one another on a larger level: the idea of a nation. (more…)