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The natural consequences of equality of outcome have already been nicely summed up in this piece of literature. "the 211th, 212th, and 213th amendments to the
by merpnderp 8y ago
The natural consequences of equality of outcome have already been nicely summed up in this piece of literature.
"the 211th, 212th, and 213th amendments to the Constitution dictate that all Americans are fully equal and not allowed to be smarter, better-looking, or more physically able than anyone else. The Handicapper General's agents enforce the equality laws, forcing citizens to wear "handicaps": masks for those who are too beautiful, loud radios that disrupt thoughts inside the ears of intelligent people, and heavy weights for the strong or athletic."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Bergeron https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Bergeron
- AlexB138 8y agoOr, perhaps more viscerally, in this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gulag_Archipelago https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gulag_Archipelago
- Iv 8y agoMy... The strawman escalated quickly. From semantics to gulag in 2 messages. One must really hate the idea of a fair society when one equates equality with the crippling of society.
- Iv 8y agoAnd the natural consequences of freedom have been summed up by Sade who argued that without the freedom to kill someone else, freedom remains limited. Hence the reason who no one makes one single idea the only absolute moral goal of a society. I have yet to find someone who argues that therefore, we should consider freedom a dangerous ideal.