Political scientist: Efforts to create a more egalitarian society are often wrongly criticized on the grounds that total equality would necessarily force everyone into a common mold. Equality is presumed by such critics to require unacceptably bland uniformity. But this is not so. By promoting complementary human interests, a society can achieve a greater and more prosperous equality while enhancing rather than minimizing diversity. The political scientist's argument proceeds by ['undermining a view by showing that its general acceptance would lead to undesirable consequences', 'claiming that whatever is true of a group must be true of each of the members of the group', 'rebutting an objection by attacking the assumption on which it is said to be based', 'attacking a view by claiming that those who propose it are motivated only by self-interest']