@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... affirmative action is the most equal thing possible, actually.
either your "equality" is descriptive ("something, something, therefore i deduce that everybody has the same opportunities."), in which case simple observation reveals your thesis to be false (a drug addict is not a billionaire, a chinese guy is not russian).
or it is prescriptive ("i observe that people are not equal, but they ought to be") in which case something must take you from now to equality-land. what is that levelling force? what is the appropriate "power", in some social political analogue of watts, to expend on the levelling engine?
the left's answer is "infinity!". if you like equality, this is the maximally good answer.
yours, however, is "less than infinity! somewhere short of infinity!"
with the left, the disagreement ends there. i have no further questions for them, and can proceed to fighting them.
but with you i must ask: where is that line? and why?
either your "equality" is descriptive ("something, something, therefore i deduce that everybody has the same opportunities."), in which case simple observation reveals your thesis to be false (a drug addict is not a billionaire, a chinese guy is not russian).
or it is prescriptive ("i observe that people are not equal, but they ought to be") in which case something must take you from now to equality-land. what is that levelling force? what is the appropriate "power", in some social political analogue of watts, to expend on the levelling engine?
the left's answer is "infinity!". if you like equality, this is the maximally good answer.
yours, however, is "less than infinity! somewhere short of infinity!"
with the left, the disagreement ends there. i have no further questions for them, and can proceed to fighting them.
but with you i must ask: where is that line? and why?