Corner of Bourbon & Division

This is a perfect illustration of what I mean. You cannot treat people as objects, as means to someone else's ends and get justice. People are not "little weights" that you can move around willy-nilly with the law — they have lives and rights, which is something to which both left and right collectivists are stone blind. Equality of outcome is something no "philosopher king" or "committee of concerned citizens" will ever be able to adjudicate to anyone's satisfaction, and the attempt to do so breeds more animosities than it cures, inevitably. People mouth words like "equality" without even thinking. It's hard enough to create and maintain a legal system that dispenses equal treatment let alone a system which attempts to create equal outcomes — and I dare anyone to find any two people who would even agree on what those equalities of outcome would even be. It cannot be done. When the law becomes a tool to manipulate people and outcomes then it is no longer a tool of justice; it is the arbitrary toy of competing political pressure groups, until it breaks down completely.