If someone who was not a prince had wanted to make an offering, he would have been told to do it some other time. This event was for princes only. To some extent, we could follow one or other of these courses. But there are also situations where our egalitarian idealism clashes with Torah values. In effect, we have two distinct and even contradictory ways of looking at the individual.
Egalitarianism sees the individual as able to pursue any line of activity.
This sounds wonderfully idealistic. And it is an ideal we largely espouse for, with the right conditions, it means anyone can reach the top in any field. But there is also a sense in which egalitarianism leaves people without direction. Without absolute standards, values necessarily reduce to whatever the individual creates for him or herself. Those who appear to be in control of their circumstances are, at a certain level, controlled by their own prior circumstances.