Equality: Clarity and Confusion

Equality: Clarity and Confusion

Every attempt to apply equality in everyday life produces paradoxes. Equality of opportunity assures inequality of result; equality of condition restricts equality of opportunity. Separate facilities make black and white schoolchildren unequal, but only separate facilities provide equality for children in wheelchairs. One-man, one-vote weighs individuals equally, yet counts minority groups unequally. And so on, an...


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