Equality is the idea that all people have the same inherent value. Equity is freedom from bias and justice according to natural law or right.
If people expect the government to treat all people equally, isn’t equality meaningless unless those who suffer from impaired access to opportunities are provided some measure of equity (differentiated treatment) that serves to level the playing field?
To what extent does a society have to provide equity to assure equality?
I would not use "equity" in this conversation at all. I think it muddied the water, which is murky enough without us adding to it. That said, a conversation about equal opportunity v equal outcomes and if/when/how society should intervene for better outcomes for less fortunate people is a conversation worth having.
Since neither aim will ever be achieved by printing still more money to pay still more special-interest lobbyists to write still more 'laws' to issue still more grants and invent still more bureaucracies which immediately set about pilfering their funding for every penny they can redistribute to their organized-crime owner-operators, isn't this entire cosplay passing as 'debate' rather a moot point?
As is the whole of 'politics', come to think of it.
I would not use "equity" in this conversation at all. I think it muddied the water, which is murky enough without us adding to it. That said, a conversation about equal opportunity v equal outcomes and if/when/how society should intervene for better outcomes for less fortunate people is a conversation worth having.
Since neither aim will ever be achieved by printing still more money to pay still more special-interest lobbyists to write still more 'laws' to issue still more grants and invent still more bureaucracies which immediately set about pilfering their funding for every penny they can redistribute to their organized-crime owner-operators, isn't this entire cosplay passing as 'debate' rather a moot point?
As is the whole of 'politics', come to think of it.