According to the dictionary.com definition equality is the state or quality of being equal; correspondence in inquaintity, degree, value, rank or ability. Is this the equality that Americans are rooting for? Or what Thomas Jefferson meant when he said that we were created equal? Looking at the occupy Wall street example once again. Did they want the government to give them more money? To take money away from other people? I'm on the fence. I mean I think everyone can agree that our economy is in the dumps at this point, that the value of our dollar is definitely decreasing, and the unemployment seems to be only going up. And while agree on the one hand that professions like doctors, plastic surgeons, political representatives, etc definitely make to much money, on the other hand is it really right to take money from say doctors who have literally put loads of money, hours, and work into getting where they are today? Notice it seems like everyone protests these one or five percent of people but turn their heads at the celebrities and social elites that rake in dollars by the hundred thousands?
Of course in this example we are only looking at economic equality or i guess really inequality. So in an effort to refrain from being biased and give everyone(diff word) an equal look opportunity, there is more than just one type of equality. There's gender equality, racial equality, ethnic equality, political equality, geographic equality, social equality.....and so on. But rather than focus on merely one type of equality over another, for that wouldn't be fair, we're going to attempt to focus strictly on what the word "equality" truly means in America today, without all of the descriptors.
As already stated equality is by definition the state of being equal. But what I'm going to assume is that what everyone really means is fairness; everyone wants a fair shot. And that definiton according to dictionary.com goas as follows, "free from bias, dishonesty, or injustice." Fair enough?
~no child left behind act
~civil rights act
~Romans were dealing with the same crap thousands of years ago
~there's hardly ever been a time
~Guns, Germs, and Steel with New Guinea and Papa New Guinea
~a fine balance btw freedom, order, and equality
~equality simply doesn't work in the real world
~something to do with walking in line when your in elementary school, and then....LOOK UP
Of course in this example we are only looking at economic equality or i guess really inequality. So in an effort to refrain from being biased and give everyone(diff word) an equal look opportunity, there is more than just one type of equality. There's gender equality, racial equality, ethnic equality, political equality, geographic equality, social equality.....and so on. But rather than focus on merely one type of equality over another, for that wouldn't be fair, we're going to attempt to focus strictly on what the word "equality" truly means in America today, without all of the descriptors.
As already stated equality is by definition the state of being equal. But what I'm going to assume is that what everyone really means is fairness; everyone wants a fair shot. And that definiton according to dictionary.com goas as follows, "free from bias, dishonesty, or injustice." Fair enough?
~no child left behind act
~civil rights act
~Romans were dealing with the same crap thousands of years ago
~there's hardly ever been a time
~Guns, Germs, and Steel with New Guinea and Papa New Guinea
~a fine balance btw freedom, order, and equality
~equality simply doesn't work in the real world
~something to do with walking in line when your in elementary school, and then....LOOK UP
After doing a little reading, that word "fair" or "fairness" has a more formal descriptor "equity".
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ReplyDeleteEquality: Equality is by definition the state of being equal, and that type of equality simply doesn’t work in the real world. Ror everyone to be equal is unattainable, and to what to what is the standard by which we would say that we are equal? What people are really searching after when they say equality is equity, or in layman’s terms, fairness.