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> I was always under the impression that the thing that makes western society great is that everyone is supposed to be equal. What makes the Western societies
by alacombe 9y ago
> I was always under the impression that the thing that makes western society great is that everyone is supposed to be equal.
What makes the Western societies great revolve more around "equality of opportunity" than "equality of outcome", which, if I'm not mistaken, you seem to imply.
- rvo 9y agoI'm not too sure. Equality of opportunity doesn't help uplift marginalized populations. At least outcome can be measured and so that could be one way of guiding the uplifting of populations. Example, women earning equal to men. The phrasing there is not "women get the same opportunities as men for careers, etc". No one is stopping women from going into the same careers as men. But, apparently (according to people much "smarter" than me), that is not helping women. So, they look at the outcome : are women making the same as men? If not, lets try to optimize that objective function. So west definitely seems to be quite heavy on outcomes. But maybe this is just semantics?
- mmirate 9y agohttps://archive.org/stream/HarrisonBergeron/Harrison%20Bergeron_djvu.txt https://archive.org/stream/HarrisonBergeron/Harrison%20Berge...