Equal Rights = Being treated equally?

[Ruhiel]

You can't have "equality." At least, not in the event for women's equal rights exactly. I'm all for them being paid the same and treated the same as men. But equal rights would also mean that they would be eligible for the draft. That's not good. Women can probably be just as good or better than men in the armed forces, but when it comes to forcibly drafting them, that's bad. Not simply because I don't like the idea of women having to be sent to the front lines, but because if both the men and women go to war, who stays home to watch over the children? There wouldn't be anyone left.

And special treatment is not equal treatment. While it's good for trying to correct economic or social imbalances, special treatment isn't technically legal. Nor should it be permanent. If people want to be treated equally, they have to be willing to be equal in every respect. And that's not a good thing. Why? Because that's fucking communism. Democracy is good because it embraces the fact that people aren't all equal, but it simply provides a way for everyone to try to treat one another as fairly as possible.

So, no to the "complete equality." There is not nearly enough good that would come from it to outweigh the bad. It's a nice idea, but it won't work, because the world isn't a perfect place. Seek for a compromise.

Aqua has a point that makes the most sense to me. I like that quote in respect to this discussion.

[Retane]

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Chicks equal to men?

Pfffft

[Hellfighter 17]

Originally posted by Aqua
Equality is really the topic on which I spend a vast majority of my college studies. I could go on for ever, and I will at some point, but for now let me just say this:

No two people on this planet are equal in everyway (regardless of gender, religion, skin color, or whatever). People should be judged by merit and merit alone.

Exactly. Even if you just take gender, if you follow biology, and you have a choice between one man and one woman, both of them have the same degrees from teh same university and graduated at the same place in their class, and the job placement is in mathematics, it is simply wiser to choose the man if you have nothing else to go on as they are generally better at mathematics. On the other hand, women are better at linguistics. There are probably the same patterns in ethnicities and such.