Johnd said:
Robbie, it is your belief that nobody is more important than another, but how would you go about offering empirical proof, or at least data to convince others of that?
Hmm, 'never thought about how it could be proven, but how's this for starters:
Consider two babies. You know nothing of their parents or anything else that could conceivably have an influence on your answer. Looking at the babies, how could anybody possibly say that one was any more or less important than the other?
Johnd said:
And is that to say noboby is less important than another?
Yes, but really it's just the same as nobody being more important than another. After all, if someone is less important than another, then the other person is more important than them in which case 'nobody is more important' covers both cases.
Was that a trick question?
Johnd said:
And finally, is that to say that we are [all] equally important?
Yes. That's the only possibility left.
I'm not saying that some people don't do more important things (job etc.) than others, but in terms of worth, we are all equal.