No two identical people have ever been born at the exact same time in the exact same place. We are all different. From the family we were born into, to the place we were born, no two people have perfectly identical backgrounds. We are born with different traits and we develop different abilities. We all have different opportunities. Thus, a completely uniform human society cannot exist and prosper. There will always be diversity. All people live different lives also, so how could a society become, and stay, equal? Government should not intervene to attempt to equalize a society because people are inherently unequal.
The very core of inequality in human society is at a time that none of us can control: our birth. This is the very beginning of human diversity. We all are born with different genes. This is the main framework from which all inequality exists. Government does not need to intervene because we all grow up in different societies with different people. Any attempt by government to make everyone the same means a loss of rights and liberties to someone. Across the United States of America, everyone deserves fair and equal treatment by the government. The government should not favor some people over others because of where they are from, or who their parents are.
Another reason that society is inherently unequal, and reason for which government does not need to overly involve itself, is opportunities and development. Opportunities and development are, in essence, simply an extension of the previously mentioned reason. As we grow up, we all face different choices, make different decisions and have different trials. Here is a short quote from Moroni, written in his abridgement of the Jaredite record: “… I give unto men weakness that they may be humble…” (Ether 12:27).
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