At first glance, it may seem that equality is good. Equality is development, and it is a good thing in society. And while those statements are true, equality is often overlooked as a quality, when in a lot of cases equality is actually not the solution.
Most times we think of "equality", not "equity". Equality is the equal treatment or equal facilities given to someone or something. It can measure quantities and give the same value to two or more things. Whereas equity is a bit different. It's best to explain in an example:
Equality: Both a child and an adult gets to eat 1500 calories a day. In this way, it food is too much for the child and too little for the adult. To put it simply, this method is crap.
Equity: A child gets 700 calories per day, and an adult gets 1000 calories per day, as per their needs. In this way, both the child and adult are content with the food they get. To put it simply, this is a win-win situation where losing is practically impossible.
I'm sure you get it now at this point. Equality doesn't care about a person's needs and only gives the same thing to both. It is not very practical in most cases. And equity is obligated to give the right value for both.
Now, I'm not trying to diss equality or anything, because it is still important for a lot of things like fair pay, fair play, fair rights, and a lot more stuff that human rights organizations agree with. Now..........equity, however, gives the illusion of injustice but is the right thing. If you didn't get what I said, here is an example:
Story: In the town of Megaburg, two sporting events were going on at the same time. The events were held in separate stadiums. Both sporting events had the same sport; football. After the match, it was realized that one team, where there were only boys, had made more money from the match than the other female teams who were playing in the opposite stadium. This sparked protests locally where the women and feminists demanded fair play for their work.....................only to realize again that the whole thing was B.S because the boy's team had made more money because they played more rounds. (The boys team played 5, the women's played 3). After the event, every protester went home knowing they were stupid.
This story depicts equity. At first, the people thought that the matches were unequal because the boys' team made more when in reality they made more because they played more rounds than the women's team. As I said before; "Equity gives the illusion of injustice, but is the right thing".
To differentiate between equity and equality is an important thing in today's world because, for some reason, people have gotten more and more stupid day by day. Their minds are controlled by some centralized mindset that blindly follows everything that comes because of their basic human inability to differentiate between two different things.
It's amusing, to say the least, but is still a prevalent problem in society, for some reason. I'm not trying to prove any point, because equality also has some use in modern society, and so does equity. I'm only trying to raise awareness of the fact that:
"Don't be blinded by equality"
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