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Equal consideration, after all, does not necessary mean an equal outcome.
However, this arid, texbook debate, "equal opportunity" versus "equal outcome", misses the point: how today's unequal outcomes shape tomorrow's unequal opportunities.
In other words, their request was for an equal outcome.
It does not follow from the fact that this unequal outcome is the result of luck that, if we eliminate the inequality, the resulting equal outcome will not to the same degree be the result of luck, i.e., will not be one in which factors for which people are not responsible play no (or a smaller) causal role in bringing about the outcome.
It stems from the attitude that effort does not equal outcome, the belief one has no control over aspects of their life, a victimization both real and imagined.
Those of us who fight against the rising disparity of income levels are not fighting for equal outcome; we are fighting for equal opportunity.
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We fight for the first amendment and we fight mostly for equality – not for a guarantee of equal outcomes but for equal opportunities.
It is not necessarily a sham for David Cameron and Nick Clegg to claim to care about equality of opportunity as opposed to equal outcomes – it is a distinct philosophical position.
We promise equal opportunity, not equal outcomes.
He believes that equal opportunity does not necessarily guarantee equal outcomes.
"When people have equal access to care, they have equal outcomes".
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