1 =/= 2

1 can never equal 2. That's impossible. Except to say that 2 inches equals 5.08 centimeters, but there's a conversion formula for that. We need to relearn number theory, as a society. So we don't end up making 1=2, as it never will.

[If] you subtracted out a similar term, and unbalanced the equation, [or something like it] the equality has to be equal the whole time, for it to work. We used to know that... it was the whole premise of my High School Education. I think the Internet made people braindead.

[T]his is a qualm I have with the internet, that it's literally making people forget some of the most basic things.

{}Some people try to make that point, [like in common core math, or they call math a "Western Concept"] these days. It's a strange world we live in.

I don't know... I was taught the equation has to always be equal, hence the term equation. You see where you reduced it, it's no longer equal.

In fact, in language that's how we have knowledge, too, is when empirical facts start equating, or things in the real world start being described. Like Geometry. Not many people relate math back to geometry, but that's where our entire knowledge of number and algebra comes from, is studying shapes, and deriving axioms of logic around it. And in fact, the evidence for the Bible does this very well, in archeology, ethics and also psychology.