Equality: a.

People on the Right believe that it is equitable to treat different things differently. Children are different from adults, and so when it comes to things like voting, alcohol and tobacco consumption, marriage, contractual obligations, incarceration, etc., it makes sense to treat children differently than adults. Cars are different from buses and semi-trucks and motorcycles and jets, and doctors are different from nurses, and lawyers are different from court stenographers, etc., and so it makes sense to legally license each differently. Movie stars and franchise players bring far more people to the box office than bit players, presidents of countries and corporations tend to be far more important than entry-level workers, and so it makes sense to pay them more for equal work.

Whereas, people on the Left believe it is equitable to treat different things the same. Even though in terms of strength men and women are generally different, the Left thinks it makes sense to put women in the line of fire in burning homes, arresting dangerous criminals, and on the frontlines of war. While in terms of procreation, heterosexual relationships are clearly different from homosexuals, the Left thinks it makes sense to legally define marriage to include homosexuals in spite of the fact that legalization of marriage throughout history has been essentially tied to procreation. Even though the financial viability of men and women's collegiate sports is quite different, the Left thinks it makes sense to compel the latter wherever there is the former. And, even though different students do different levels of scholastic work, the Left thinks it makes sense to grade everyone pretty much the same. The exception to this rule is multi-culturalism. In this case the Left thinks it makes sense to celebrate diversity and disparately focus on select differences.