READ THE PASSAGE TO ANSWER BOTH QUESTIONS. (WILL MARK BRAINLIEST)
“Freedom meant freedom to dominate and freedom from regulation. Equality, by contrast, was a base “leveling” instinct that restricted freedom by insisting that everyone, even those who were evidently superior, had to play by the same rules, respect the same limits. Any assertion that people should be more equal than they theoretically already were smacked of socialism--and socialism, like other “foreign” ideas, was thoroughly beyond the pale(unacceptable)” (107).
1) Based on the passage above, what is the author trying to infer about the level of equality that is acceptable and the level of equality that is not acceptable?
2)Based on the passage above, what can you infer about freedom and equality?