There's a difference between the analogy - which is 'mandating' an equal OUTCOME and what, to me, is a 'reasonable' liberal's stance of equal OPPORTUNITY.

I, for one, am FOR the latter and VERY AGAINST the former.

Having said that, I don't believe that we CAN, for example, let industry polic itself. We did that and ended up with ungodly pollution in the 1960s. I remember seeing all that smog in the air when I was younger. When I moved to NH in 1974, the Merrimack River was, for all intents and purposes, dead. Now there are fish in it. I much prefer having a government that (albeit inefficiently and not consistently) stands against the kind of filth we used to accept.