Reply To: What Did I do?!

What has emerged from all of this is that there is only one isolated example of any sort of Halachic preference for certain people over others, and that this is exclusively in a situation where you are forced to choose between people.

This is the key. If you are forced to choose, a hierarchy is required. The Titanic crew, as well, was expected to follow a specific hierarchy, albeit not the one provided in Horayos. They were supposed to rescue women first; does this prove that the British society of 1915 favored women? The millions of British women who could not vote until many years later would like a word…

There is no debate about whether any person, from the Kohen Gadol to the Mamzer, would be treated equally if possible. This is true with regard to saving lives, as well as to all other areas of Halacha. If the Kohen Gadol and the Mamzer were opposing litigants in a Beis Din, neither of them would have any sort of preference in the way they were treated, or any sort of presumption of credibility.

The Torah is absolutely egalitarian.