What I’ve always wanted to say is people are not created equal. Now that I'm sure the reader wants to clock me with a frying pan, allow me to explain. The very nature of the phrase is preposterous; it uses absolutes in saying that all people are like this, and it just isn't possible to sum up the value of every person that ever was, is, and will be and declare them all to be the same.
There are a couple of other problems with this statement, the most evident being that its just plain false. By birth, two completely different people will never be the same; they just won't. One might have inherited physical strength, causing a higher amount of energy supplying mitochondria in their cells, and another person might have inherited loose earlobes. We all are not the same, and we can never hope to be.
This statement was probably made because, by nature, we are all competitive. We want to be the best at what we do and who we are, and we create our standards based on what we see other people do, but even this is a misinforming principle based on falesy. We compare ourselves to other people because they’re the closest thing to us, but this, too, is a falesy. No two people are the same; they will always have different interests, though patterns, and skill capacities, and trying to rate yourself based on others reduces your worth to a mere number, and you indirectly put a value on yourself.
And doing this takes away from the beauty of life; it’s indiscernible and infinite value. We are creatures that can’t be broken down by numbers or simple logic, we aren’t completely subject to statistics; we transcend all theories, and anyone trying to sum up human nature never gets past just that: a theory. It’s only through work, determination, and a good amount of randomization that anything is ever determined. Trying to break down that random element removes the mystery of life, and what’s the point of living when you have all the answers?
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