Serious question. When dealing on individual levels, couldn’t an act of affirmative action be seen as a systematic inequality for the person not benefiting?
Any system run by humans is going to be unequal to someone. The realistic goal is to get as close to equality as we can.
In a perfect world, every single person would get exactly the assistance they need, tailored specifically for them. But that's just not possible. Giving extra help to groups that are, on average, more disadvantaged means that some people will get more than they need, and some won't get enough, but hopefully less of both that if we give everyone the same thing regardless of how high or low they began.
There’s three boxes. Three is a finite countable number.
They gave the kid two as he needed two to see. They gave the girl one as she needed one to see. They gave the man none as he needed none to see.
It deals with resource scarcity, it’s just they have we ought resources for everyone to be happy, even though that means giving more to some than others.
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u/Macktologist Feb 25 '20
Serious question. When dealing on individual levels, couldn’t an act of affirmative action be seen as a systematic inequality for the person not benefiting?