Equal Rights: Different Strengths and Weaknesses

Equality is not about what is fair, it is what is equal. Fairness, is about giving people what they need or what they deserve. Equality on the other hand is about making an even plain. Like having two people stand beside each other, and if one is taller than the other, equality chops down the difference between the two heights to make it equal. While fairness would dictate that the shorter person get a ladder or stool.

The main problem with equality is best summed up with Aristotle’s quote,”The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.” The problem with equality is that it tries and make everything equal for people, even though everyone has different strengths and weaknesses.

Equality is about making everything the same, which is a disaster to say the least. If you have someone who is stronger than the other, and you give them the same job, the person who is weaker, simply cannot do the stronger person’s workload. This does not make them stupid or silly, it is simply that they are not equal. Equal in treatment as a human, but not in physical gifts.

Another example would be women equality. While good that women are being treated fairly, having them equal to men or vice verse is foolish. As they both bring different viewpoints and benefits. Furthermore, in the workforce, having a diverse gender environment produces more results than a female extreme or a male extreme. Needless to say that is why men and women are different. Diversity is the slice of life.

Different things makes better things, and variety means that we all have our strengths and weakness. Equality is the choice to ignore that people are not equal or different, regardless of the consequences they may bring.

Although people might say, that’s not what equality really means, then what does equality mean then? Not what the dictionary says?

The main problem with equality is that people are not the same. Furthermore, equality doesn’t necessarily make a better life for people or mean that they will be treated any better when you bring everyone down to the level you stand. Equality isn’t about fairness, or what is right. Equality is only about shoving everyone to the same level.

And in the end, you get the old communist joke. Everyone is equal, but some are more equal than others. Equality does not ensure that everyone is treated right. It just means that we are all living in the dirt. It’s like if I have a flashy car, and since you don’t, you take it away from me so that we are both equal. That is the stupidity of equality. All it means is that we are equal.

So when people say equality, have a pause, is it really what society needs? A world where we are all treated the same regardless of what our different gifts or skills are? Wouldn't it be better to have a world where people are all fairly treated and their differences are taken into account?