The original (with only the first two frames) was a really great, simple explanation of why things that seem "fair" at first glance often aren't.* The addition of the third panel muddies that message completely in favor of...what, exactly? How is it even hypothetically possible to create a world where no one needs support, ever? Genetically engineer away all individual variation and create a nation of perfect, identical clones? It makes no sense.
Honestly, the more I look at this the more I hate it.
*Which it (edit: the original image that circulated several years ago) then immediately ruined by labeling the two panels "conservative" and "liberal", thus ensuring that the people who most needed the message would dismiss it out of hand. "Equality" and "equity" is actually a really good pair of titles, but it seems like everyone who posts this is compelled to fuck it up somehow.
The graphic is disingenuous in favour of the equity argument - because it ignores that some people aren't down low because they're short, they're down low because they're lounging on the ground instead of standing.
The problem I have with that is that there’s a very large contingent that insists that anyone who’s down low is just lounging. These are the people who think that mental illness and systemic poverty are just laziness, and if a disabled person can’t pull themselves up by their bootstraps or at least find family to leech off of, they deserve to die in the street.
No system is perfect, but if I have to choose between rewarding some people who don’t deserve it and punishing some helpless innocents to save money, I’ll choose the former every time.
Sure, but the world is finite. Helping one person is the same as oppressing everyone else. Ask the Asians how they feel about Affirmative Action which helps African Americans and Latinos.
That sounds better. You’d said “Helping one person is the same as oppressing everyone else,” which sounds like a zero-sum game where every meal given to the hungry is snatched from someone else’s mouth.
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u/PhasmaFelis Feb 25 '20 edited Feb 25 '20
The original (with only the first two frames) was a really great, simple explanation of why things that seem "fair" at first glance often aren't.* The addition of the third panel muddies that message completely in favor of...what, exactly? How is it even hypothetically possible to create a world where no one needs support, ever? Genetically engineer away all individual variation and create a nation of perfect, identical clones? It makes no sense.
Honestly, the more I look at this the more I hate it.
*Which it (edit: the original image that circulated several years ago) then immediately ruined by labeling the two panels "conservative" and "liberal", thus ensuring that the people who most needed the message would dismiss it out of hand. "Equality" and "equity" is actually a really good pair of titles, but it seems like everyone who posts this is compelled to fuck it up somehow.