mixing up individuals with populations

     Mixing up individual people with populations is like mixing up atoms in air with the air mass itself. Yes, there are atoms that do not follow the properties of the air mass but, all in all, this is irrelevant to the properties of the air mass. Pointing to anomalies within the structure is hardly proof that these air mass properties don't exist, or ought not to exist.
     Similarly, comparing two air masses as potentially equal because there are similarities between individual atoms is incorrect. One must consider these as wholes. That is, the cherry picking of the parts cannot be extrapolated to the whole. We agree that if atoms in one air mass were to behave as they do in another air mass, then they'd act similarly but to assume because certain atoms in one group behave as another, and that this is proof they could achieve equality is to ignore other forces on other atoms within the mass that do not act similarly.
     That is not to say this is an abdication of responsibility. Ultimately it must be preached that what we think turns into what we believe. And what we believe turns into what we do and who we become. We can change individual atom behavior, but to change the properties of the air mass, fundamental properties must change to the forces on the masses entirety.