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/^t/What George Orwell meant when he wrote "All men are equal: but some are more equal than others" was probably that theoretically everyone should enjoy the same rights and have equal duties. Yet, the other side of the coin is that there are people who are privileged, whose status is higher than that of the rest. It seems that the word "equal", ironically, came to mean "having rights" here. If everybody has rights there are some who have even more rights. This kind of attitude was what Orwell tried to ridicule.