Not everyone should be treated equally, because not everyone behaves the same. Everyone should get the same opportunity to excel or fail, but you shouldn't treat excellence the same as failure or mediocrity.

Talking about how to encourage more excellence... now that's an interesting conversation.

That's fair, I did mean "equal opportunity". But yes, it is an interesting conversation. It's also a hard conversation because people really don't like hearing that they were born on third base and might have to forgo some benefits that other people are being allocated.