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Old 01-27-2013 | 12:38 PM
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Originally Posted by N2264J
Not in this context. It means everyone gets treated the same.



Tell us about it. Imagine all the discriminatory conclusions you can draw if you start with a false premise.

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That is exactly what I am talking about, we have equal rights but it does not follow that everyone will be treated the same or will have equal outcomes. This is not discrimination, it is reality

The false conclusion is that equal rights generate equal outcomes, outcomes are the result of many factors but are not rights.

Another false conclusion is that equal rights in theory means people will be treated the same by law. Not so, some laws are applied to some and not others in the same way-some lose their rights and some try to restrict the rights of others.

There is a huge gap between equal rights or treatment and equal outcomes, this seems to be where much of the confusion lives.

For example, expanding the rights of one group at the expense of another group does not constitute an expansion of rights for the group as a whole. I am sure you can think of many examples.

If a set of laws applies to one group, but another group is exempted then rights have been diminished in the group as a whole.

Last edited by jungle; 01-27-2013 at 12:53 PM.
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