OUR INEQUALITY AND EQUALITY Men and women are compatible in a division of percep

OUR INEQUALITY AND EQUALITY

Men and women are compatible in a division of perception, cognition, knowledge, labor, and advocacy. We are not equal. We are not altogether that similar. And in many ways we are opposites. We live not so much as individuals as ‘parts’ that work together. Individualism determines the rate of economic cooperation, and the quality of the law’s resolution of conflicts. It does not on the other hand mean we are in any way equal. Why? Because we are equal in contract if unequal in perception, cognition, knowledge, labor, and advocacy.

Cooperation (contract) is a matter of equality since we must constantly prevent one another from engaging in parasitism. But it is the process of cooperation that is equal, not the individuals who participate in it.