Reply to post: Re: To Be Fair

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Michael Thibault

Re: To Be Fair

>Do you stand back and leave all the disadvantaged people to their fate during that time, or do you try to do something to help them?

That something you do to help (them) would necessarily include determining that there's a point after which no more 'leveling' is practicable; defining equality as a strict function of parity (i.e. equality == parity in numbers) is a mistake, as doing so may well institutionally define inequality as perpetual, entrenching frustration. Not a wise thing to do.

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