"Injustice results as much from treating unequals equally as from treating equals unequally."
— Aristotle, Politics
What people don't realise is that equality is either evil or just plan stupid.
Equality of outcome is obviously retarded. This is what communists believe. But what many people - even on the right - fail to realise, is that equality of opportunity is also retarded (although not as evil).
You can't have it. In order for everyone to have equal opportunity, they'd all need to have the same genetics, the same parents, be born in the same place, at the same time, with the same resources.
You do NOT want equality.
You want fairness. And fairness leads specifically, to inequality.
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If you can’t have equality of opportunity, then wouldn’t that mean we can’t have fairness either?
Because someone will always have an advantage over someone else (genetics, IQ, upbringing, resources etc) making the playing not perfectly fair
Fair is about the rules, and their application
Fair rules sounds like equality of opportunity to me. What’s the difference between fairness & equal opportunity?
Interesting topic, but my question is, who would decide what is fair and what isn’t?
I think freedom should be the focus, individual freedom
“A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.”
Milton Friedman
Freedom is unfortunately one of the most nebulous and useless measures of all.
Fairness is easier to define. We’ve done it with games since the beginning of time.
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So you’re saying that players at the olympics were competing due to the fairness of the Olympic committee and not because of the individuals talents?
fairness can muddy things up easily, one can complain that why should an athlete or a performer get 100k in one night and it’s not fair as I don’t even make 100k in a year
Anyways let’s agree to disagree 🤝
Huh?
Your first sentence didn’t make sense.
To be clear: an athlete is looking to WIN, and the best athlete wins based on a set of standards / rules that are set by the game. Athletes opt into whatever sport and its rules - and then they compete for an unequal outcome.
The games that spectators most enjoy are the ones that have a winner and loser, but which were FAIR.
And your second statement sounds like some socialist stupidity.
The athlete clearly deserves way more money than you do. Especially if their talent has created the demand.
That’s also very fair.
It’s not equal, but it’s fair. And that’s what matters.
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💥 makes me think of those who treat everyone nice and end up getting trampled over, usually without even knowing it. It’s insane to treat people equally. Meet people in the moment, assess and establish the accurate posture.
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