And how are you, sophacles, not doing the same right now by appealing to high-brow marxist morality?
Oh, I know, marxist morality is convenient because it allows people to feel superior to others without experiencing remorse for having such feelings. How nice, isn't it?
I'm not sure how you are getting that I am looking down on you, let alone deriving pleasure and self-identity from it.
I simply was observing that your statements fit the pattern I mentioned. I think it is unfortunate that people try so hard to find ways to be superior at the expense of others, but I don't really take pleasure in the fact that I see others doing it, and I certainly don't derive my self-identity from who is my "better" or my "inferior". Nor do I think everyone is "equal" in the mathematical sense, but that is not really what egalitarian means; such accusations, and the equating of egalitarianism to Marxism, are merely strawmen.
It is an unfortunate consequence of the Internet that people get to argue with each other without knowing who they really are.
I don't need to see others worse off than myself in order to be happy. I just need to remember who I myself was two or five years ago. I am rapidly becoming someone else, a larva turning into a butterfly if you forgive the hackneyed expression.
To you, the opinions I express signify contempt towards others. In reality, the only true contempt I experience is towards paths I almost took when I was growing up. Without that contempt there would be hardly any growth. By the way, there is a good movie by French director Godard called "Contempt". One of my favorite quotes is from that movie: "Oh, the gods... I know exactly how they feel."
Oh, I know, marxist morality is convenient because it allows people to feel superior to others without experiencing remorse for having such feelings. How nice, isn't it?