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Equality of Outcome or Opportunity
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"I actually believe that a fair and decent society should strive to create equal outcomes for its citizens. That actually involves treating them differently, not equally. People who are disadvantaged need assistance that others born into better circumstances do not. When you treat all people equally you actually end up with an unjust society." http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?discussion=1896#38554
There was some further discussion on that thread about outcome vs opportunity with PaulL and I both commenting.
Bronywn added some additional comment at http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?discussion=1896#38642 (and around it).
I suspect that there is an elemnt of semantics in this, the things Bronywn describes seem to me like things we'd do to create equality of opportunity.
But then how do we measure either, at an individual level neither make sense but possibly across large groups measures can be made with some meaning. If we measure outcomes can we account for the differences which drive people to make different choices and do we measure broadly enough to get a real sense of outcomes.
Is this just semantics? Is it valid to measure fairness and equality by outcomes and if so what outcomes do we need to measure to get a valid sense of how we are travelling?
R0bert