Our current civil conflict is mostly the clash between freedom vs equality. And by current I mean roughly since we got rid of feudalism.
I'm on the side of personal freedom. Individuals should be able to pursue their interests, to the extent of their talents, without interference from the mob. That will naturally lead to unequal outcomes but people are not inherently equal in interests and abilities anyway.
Much suffering has come from the idea of equality, especially in the 20th century where we piled up the corpses by the millions in the name of equality.
I'm all for equality of opportunity, which is another way of saying, get the state out of the way and end discrimination based on innate features (race, gender, etc). But equality of outcome is a deathtrap.
