When we look at someone, usually a person of great fame or fortune, knowledge or power, anybody intimidating, we think of them as better of us. Many races consider themselves better than other races; racism has spawned from this, and worst of all, genocide. However, it shouldn't take the Equal Rights movement to prove that everyone is equal (at least blacks and whites).

Admittedly, there are some levels on which some people are "superior" to others. Stephen Hawking is more intelligent than Paris Hilton, he is superior to her in that field. Ray Lewis is stronger than Paris Hilton, he is superior to her in that field. Peter Jackson is a better director than Paris Hilton (she's an easy example to use), he is superior to her in that field. Yet there are two levels on which everybody on the world is equal; the safety level and the physiological level. The safety level is the need for one to feel safe. If you have a gun pointed in your face, your safety level is compromised. The physiological level is the need for food, water, air, and other necessities like that.

Stephen King is a great writer, and he is the inspiration for this article. In many of his books, he takes people of a high-class, and exposes the underlying equality in all of them. Perhaps the greatest of the books that does this is Cell. The plot revolves around cell phones erasing everybody's mind, revealing the fundamental layer of humanity: Murder. Teachers, scholars, famous people (Bill Gates was hinted at have gone crazy), were killing anyone they could get their hands on; all their acquired knowledge was gone. King stated that many of the theories in his book were the theories of psychological experts, so while the book is fiction, the concept behind it might possibly not be.

In other King books, people like teachers and famous writers have to fight for their lives. It didn't matter the knowledge that they had, they had the same amount of fear that anyone else would have in their situation, whether it be a bum or a prostitute off in China. The focus thus far has been safety, but safety is the second level, physiological is the first. Food, water, and air supersede safety. In the concentration camps, when people were starving, people from all levels fought violently for food, even father and son. The most immediate need for every single human is air. Air is the thing that people require every second of their life, and if it goes out, like the other circumstances, it doesn't matter what you are. One will struggle and fight and fear will course through like high-voltage electricity, until death.

To sum it all up, the moral is that nobody is truly better than you, as a human, no matter how much they accomplish.

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