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No one’s saying the western nonsense idea that “everyone is equal” – reshoim are reshoim and tzadikim are tzadikim, but we never know how we’re doing and how someone else is doing to the point when we can say that we are qualitatively better than someone else – the rambam says only Hashem can make these calculations. That being said, teaching others not to go in the ways of reshoim – tinok shenishba or not – has a lot of value. Their lives are not meaningful, their behavior is egregious, and they are not ever truly happy in this world or the next. Only Torah can do that for a person, and it’s an important lesson. None of that has anything to do with being dan an individual.