Hmmm...I'm not quite sure where I'm going with this myself, but I'm going to mess around with it...I could care less if this is "drift" from where this thread has been going.

gfs constantly comes back to the concept that it is going against nature (I think he might also say against the will of God) to not. have a priority to reproduce.

Musket has just suggested that compassion and equality have a secular basis. There are suggestions that compassion, at least, may have roots down to the biological, tied to the survival of the species aspect.

But there is little or no evident impulse to equality in nature, unless in such terms as equality of worker bees among themselves, under the dominance of their superiors. No such thing as equality in a wolf pack or herd of mustangs.

So: is it going against nature, and nature's God, to promote equality of all mankind? Are we wrong, perhaps, to discount the validity of the divine right of kings?