Political scientist: Efforts to create a more egalitarian society are often wrongly criticized on the grounds that total equality would necessarily force everyone into a common mold  Equality is presumed by such critics to require unacceptably bland uniformity  But this is not so
By promoting complementary human interests, a society can achieve a greater and more prosperous equality while enhancing rather than minimizing diversity
undermining a view by showing that its general acceptance would lead to undesirable consequences