I've had a quick look through the answers, and your link https://onlinepublichealth.gwu.edu/resources/equity-vs-equality/.
"Equality means each individual or group of people is given the same resources or opportunities. Equity recognizes that each person has different circumstances and allocates the exact resources and opportunities needed to reach an equal outcome."
I think that people saying equity is bad are ignoring that there's currently no equality starting out. Your parents, pre-K, schools, etc. would have to all be equal. Nobody seems to be saying equality of outcome (equity) is good, and that's not unreasonable. Equality requires equity at a young age.
Personally, I'd like to see the top performers from any school to get extra credit to go on to further education. Excelling in a terrible school is at least as impressive as doing well in an excellent school.
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To me, equality is of opportunity. It is realistic. Equity is of outcome. It is unrealistic.
Horseshit.
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People arnt equal. I hate the word. I’ll treat you like a person but understand I do not feel the homeless man or the tramp on the corner are equal to me who works in a steel mill.
I don’t feel I’m equal to the man or woman that spend 10 years in school to become a doctor. If that’s their dream they have to work harder to reach it. I have great respect for these people more ambitious then me.
But there’s more options then demanding a scholarship for minorities. How’s about we lower the price all together? Jesus I might be onto something!Nothing much to discuss, as both are wrong. Its subjective and who gets to decide the parameters for "equity" or "equality" are problematic in democracies. For example during apartheid era USA and before woman's suffrage equity and equality were considered to be legally fulfilled. Even the Nazi's had their equity and equality rules.
Also, the link you provided fails to address many points. Such as the inability to talk equality or equity when you don't have a good enough system that can provide such opportunities to any and all in the first place. It's like giving everyone a room on a sinking ship.
I guess one of the best analogies might be the difference between your average gym junkie and someone who specialises in calisthenics, the gym junkie might get the same amount of muscle hypertrophy, but they payed a hundred times more money to get the same result as the guy who uses his own weight to create resistance, to build muscle.
no, Constitution says all men were created equal. Giving a certain group of people different treatment only breeds distrust.
Equity is the denial of human right, it is neither realistic nor desirable, less you're a communist mouth breather.
100% false. They used to just call that "Communism."
Bullshit. Equity is communist socialist bullshit which says everyone is the same at the finish line. Equality is everyone is the same at the start..
If you value equity over equality it shows stupidity at best.Impossible to answer this better than @Agape93 already has.
Garbage…that’s Communism.
Equity is impossible and morally evil.
If you’re sixteen, you’re ready for teen s*x.
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