Equality vs Disparity

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  • AutomagBoy
    Property of US MarineCorps
    • Feb 2003
    • 283

    #1

    Equality vs Disparity

    Quite simple enough would you rather have a society of equal opportunity at equality or an equal opportunity at disparity??(Sounds like an oxymoron, but I mean it not to be).

    Rephrase: Would you rather have the ability to be the same as anyone else or the ability to be better than anyone else.
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  • RingOfScale
    Americanized Thai Pancake
    • Sep 2003
    • 898

    #2
    not sure what your asking, so i voted equality because it starts with e, my 20th favorite letter
    <<90 percent of all statistics are made up on the spot>>

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    • SpecialBlend2786
      Registered User
      • Jun 2003
      • 4023

      #3
      Originally posted by AutomagBoy
      Quite simple enough would you rather have a society of equal opportunity at equality or an equal opportunity at disparity??(Sounds like an oxymoron, but I mean it not to be).

      Rephrase: Would you rather have the ability to be the same as anyone else or the ability to be better than anyone else.

      yeahhhhhh i think that still needs rewording

      Would you rather have everybody equal including yourself, or have the chance of being on a higher plain even though somebody else is lower or not as better off.

      something like that right?

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      • AutomagBoy
        Property of US MarineCorps
        • Feb 2003
        • 283

        #4
        Originally posted by SpecialBlend2786
        yeahhhhhh i think that still needs rewording

        Would you rather have everybody equal including yourself, or have the chance of being on a higher plain even though somebody else is lower or not as better off.

        something like that right?
        The more i explain the more i am naturally going to bais it towards my side. Would you rather everyone perform to their ability whether it puts them in a high class or a low class. Or would you perfer everyone be apart of the same class despite their ability.

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        • SpecialBlend2786
          Registered User
          • Jun 2003
          • 4023

          #5
          Originally posted by AutomagBoy
          The more i explain the more i am naturally going to bais it towards my side. Would you rather everyone perform to their ability whether it puts them in a high class or a low class. Or would you perfer everyone be apart of the same class despite their ability.
          that's perfectly explained

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          • Target Practice
            irc.zirc.org:6667 = chat!
            • Nov 2003
            • 3180

            #6
            From a paper I did for a PoliSci class...

            Basically, you can't have a true equal society if you force people to be equal. It might be a little much for you to wrap your brain around, but it comes with time.


            "Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats." --Henry Louis Mencken.

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            • Jakedubbleya
              Don Quixote
              • Mar 2005
              • 631

              #7
              Cant get into this one without going pretty deep into social justice philosophies using the original definition.

              so i wont.

              just know that i vote desparity, somewhat along the same lines as target practice but on a more personal level.

              Although using your new definition it becomes rather easyer. i believe all people were born for certain tasks or "callings", not all can be presidents, not all should be rich, not all would use beauty wisely. assuming that we are all equal by our humanity and not our skills, it then becomes important that people use what they have, and not who has what.

              "Equality", in truth, would turn the beauty of the equality we already have, into a beurocratic shell of humanity.
              Last edited by Jakedubbleya; 05-20-2005, 03:04 AM.

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