So instead, should we raise our shoulders to our ears and say, 'I'm sorry but it's not my fault. I have no part this except to profit from my good fortune being born as a white, straight male in America. If other people had the bad luck to be born female, black, gay or Mexican, what's that got to do with me?'
Milton Friedman had a good start with his discussion of Equality of Opportunity vs. Equality of Outcome. I'm all for Friedman on the face of it, but Friedman begs the question, since Equality of Opportunity doesn't exist in the US when to reach a certain level of success, white females have to work harder than white males, and when African-Americans have to work harder still.
I have no problem with slightly adjusting things to make things fair, since for 230 years we've significantly adjusted things to make things unfair. I believe in fairness, and that means I don't belive that the right answer is 'tough noogies.'
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Milton Friedman had a good start with his discussion of Equality of Opportunity vs. Equality of Outcome. I'm all for Friedman on the face of it, but Friedman begs the question, since Equality of Opportunity doesn't exist in the US when to reach a certain level of success, white females have to work harder than white males, and when African-Americans have to work harder still.
I have no problem with slightly adjusting things to make things fair, since for 230 years we've significantly adjusted things to make things unfair. I believe in fairness, and that means I don't belive that the right answer is 'tough noogies.'