This is one of those things that sounds very good in theory but often gets extraordinarily horrific in practice.
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There’s a big difference between equality and equity.
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The category of things where "this sounds very good and virtuous but in practice is actually hugely destructive" is gigantic and probably responsible for 90% of the shittiness of this culture
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Yeah but there's a lot of things that do not sound good and virtuous on their surface that would be hard to fit into this
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Seems the hallmark pattern of choices falling into this category:
failure to really consider 2nd/3rd-order effects (e.g. meritocracy), in favour of immediate/1st order effects (e.g. feelings).
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There is also a huge swath of things that sound terrible and scary to people but would actually be great. The overton window is pretty fucked up.
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Freedom of choice is one of these things. I'll follow the great Jewish scholar from the 12th century who put a simple twist on Aristotle - Maimonides: Virtue is in the middle - but remember that human nature pulls one side more and hence a counterbalance is advisable.
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Equality of outcome is a really dodgy thing to aspire to, but I think she just phrased it poorly. Seems like she’s going for equality of opportunity — everyone gets a chance to grab the rope, then whatever happens from there is up to them.
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Modern left politics is consistently the confluence of good intentions and bad ideas. Never thinking more than one step ahead.
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