Humanity tends to be going towards equality, even though there is a myriad number of differences between us, but we are actually heading toward it, however equality is a strong word with a vast number of meanings and most of us tends to consider it from his/her own perspective, as we know there is two types of equality (Formal and Substantive) we already have formal quality (which is advantageous) but we need more -but specific quantity of- substantive equality to fill up the holes which the formal quality left us with.
First of all, substantive equality provides us what the formal equality did not. Formal equality is when two people have the same right to do the same thing without considering their race or gender, Aristotle asserts: “treat …show more content…
A world where the substantive equality is used in an exaggerated way, is similar to a world controlled by fascist, furthermore, it will be a universe without free will. Likewise, the book “Harrison Bergeron” which says “The year was 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than nobody else; nobody was better looking than anybody else; nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else.”*3 You can see that people are forced to be equal. It might seem like a reasonable idea at first but it isn’t as well as it appears because, it kills our identity as human; our differences make us who we are. Applying substantive equality as in “Harrison Bergeron” not only kills our free will but also influence our singularity. Our singularity is what motivate us to craft and make something new. In “Harrison Bergeron” equality forces better people (physically, mentally and any other superior advantage that someone has) not to be very smart by wearing handicap “And George, while his intelligence was way above normal, had a little mental handicap radio in his ear-he was required by law to wear it all the times. It was tuned to a government transmitter, and every twenty seconds or so, the transmitter would send out some sharp noise to keep people like George from taking unfair advantage of their brains.”*4 But that is insane, if we applied that kind of equality we wouldn’t have evolved through ages. It’s like having a car factory full of the same machine; you can not craft any care with the same machine nor can’t you win a soccer match with a team full of attackers. In the end the society will be (when applying substantive equality in an exaggerated way) a society full of one type machine controlled by people wearing a swastika
First of all, substantive equality provides us what the formal equality did not. Formal equality is when two people have the same right to do the same thing without considering their race or gender, Aristotle asserts: “treat …show more content…
A world where the substantive equality is used in an exaggerated way, is similar to a world controlled by fascist, furthermore, it will be a universe without free will. Likewise, the book “Harrison Bergeron” which says “The year was 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than nobody else; nobody was better looking than anybody else; nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else.”*3 You can see that people are forced to be equal. It might seem like a reasonable idea at first but it isn’t as well as it appears because, it kills our identity as human; our differences make us who we are. Applying substantive equality as in “Harrison Bergeron” not only kills our free will but also influence our singularity. Our singularity is what motivate us to craft and make something new. In “Harrison Bergeron” equality forces better people (physically, mentally and any other superior advantage that someone has) not to be very smart by wearing handicap “And George, while his intelligence was way above normal, had a little mental handicap radio in his ear-he was required by law to wear it all the times. It was tuned to a government transmitter, and every twenty seconds or so, the transmitter would send out some sharp noise to keep people like George from taking unfair advantage of their brains.”*4 But that is insane, if we applied that kind of equality we wouldn’t have evolved through ages. It’s like having a car factory full of the same machine; you can not craft any care with the same machine nor can’t you win a soccer match with a team full of attackers. In the end the society will be (when applying substantive equality in an exaggerated way) a society full of one type machine controlled by people wearing a swastika