Here, this is a perfect example of why I say you are posting in a trollish manner!

Allow me to demonstrate

So, I said:

To which you replied:

Now, if you actually read my words, it's clear that I said, "...in your mind, one who has capitalized on their opportunities is, in some sense, superior to someone who has not."

Yet, you replied with, "I maintain that I do not rank myself above two people, simply because I determine one to have lived a more rich life than another."

As I said in my last post, the fundamental issue at the heart of this--which would precede your feeling superior/not feeling superior to those you are judging--is your constructed ethic, where some people are superior to others.

The issue here is more foundational than whether or not you feel superior to other people (although, imo, your posting style is rather telling). The issue is that you believe, as pitubo pointed out, that some people are superior to others. Again, this is your own moral construct. The fact that some people believe that it naturally follows that you then feel superior to both parties you are judging, is incidental, in a sense. As far as I'm concerned, that's the underlying, problematic, foundational thought.

And honestly, a final point as to why you come off as trollish in your shifting engagements and posting style, look at this exchange.

You open this thread and state that:

But when I say:

You fire back that:

However, not only do we have an Attitude in place that lays out some structure for engaging with this community, you yourself have already engaged in the equation of individual "active/vetted members" with "the community."

So in this second case, you have literally talked it out both ways, therefore, when you tell me that individuals ≠ community, after your initial claim to have started this thread because individuals = community, it seems as if you are doing so solely to argue. By definition, this is trollish behavior.

I think you may have interesting contributions to make to this forum. That is precisely why I am attempting to help you see how your posts are coming across to myself and at least a couple of others. Flat text has a funny way of impacting words/thoughts/ideas and I'm trying to give you the benefit of the doubt. As I said earlier, if this is an unintentional byproduct of your posting style, I'm trying to reflect to you how you are coming across, as communication is a two-way (at least) street, and flat text communication is even more challenging.

Please try to understand where I'm coming from and why myself and others have offered critiques about your posting style. This isn't just about a difference in opinions, but also an attempt to convey communal etiquette around how we try to interact, present opinions/arguments/data, etc.