I suggested (though not as clearly as I'm trying to here) that since as we come into this life we come purified and innocent (Doesn't that happen through the power of the Atonement?), we are "on the same standing" (Alma 13:5) again in regards to being able to choose and receive (at some point or another in our futures) "as great privilege as [our] brethren," still recognizing that there are varying degrees of intelligence.
A brother came up afterward to ask me about "as great privilege as [our] brethren," considering our brothers and sisters born into such situations as deepest Africa, , I think implying that they hadn't done as much to prepare or were "not as good" in the premortal realms, so hadn't earned what we had earned.
I "do not know all things. Nevertheless, I do know that God loveth [ALL] His children." I'll need to do more study on this. I do believe that each of is placed where we have the opportunity to accomplish that which we need to in this life. Since the Lord's purpose is to bring about the immortality and eternal life of man, I think that we all have the opportunity to move toward eternal life, if we will choose to do so.
The danger for those of us born into such privilege as being members of the Church and living in prosperous circumstances is the temptation to think that somehow we are better than our brothers and sisters who are not. I don't think there is a "better" in that case. We just have a different assignment, a different course of study in this university of mortality, if you will. Our brothers and sisters born into what we consider less privileged circumstances may have already developed qualities many of us"more privileged ones" need to develop through the service we are here called to do. Clearly there are those among us (those we would call Noble and Great ones who serve as leaders) who are further along that continuum of development toward being like our Father in Heaven. I think, though, that there are those in truly humble circumstances who are also great and noble spirits.
I don't know if I've made clear what I'm trying to say.
We've in a sense earned our places and opportunities by what we did and what we were in the preexistence, but a "higher or lower" placement is not necessarily based on or discernible by mortal standards.
Alma 13:4, 5
4 And thus they have been acalled to this holy calling on account of their faith, while others would reject the Spirit of God on account of the hardness of their hearts and bblindness of their minds, while, if it had not been for this they might have had as great cprivilege as their brethren.
5 Or in fine, in the first place they were on the asame standing with their brethren; thus this holy calling being prepared from the foundation of the world for such as would not harden their hearts, being in and through the atonement of the Only Begotten Son, who was prepared—
