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What Is Equality?

Our current definition of equality seems to lack the fact that no one is born more important than the rest.

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What Is Equality?
Megan Miller

Equality is a term that, in this day in age, is tossed around a lot. But do we truly know what equality is?

Our current definition of equality seems to lack the fact that no one is born more important than the rest.

Sure, one may be born into better circumstances. They may have more money or more friends than you, but that doesn't make the said person more important. The one born into a single parent living in a one room apartment with little food and monetary supply is just as valuable.

The definition of equality is: "The state of being equal, especially in status, rights, and opportunities." Everyone can achieve equal goals.

One problem at least the American society faces though is that the things needed to achieve these goals aren't equally available to all.

One problem we face as a country is that education is not very affordable even to people who live in a three person family with steady income. It is still possible for the less fortunate to get a good education but it is very much more difficult than for someone who was born was more advantages. And this is only one of the many problems causing our definition of equality to be altered.

How are we as a society supposed to be equal if the way the world had been formatted to work makes it not so.

Changing our world or at least our country for the better requires not only change in ourselves but change in the whole of the format we live in.

The definition of equality states that every person should have equal rights, status, and ability to achieve strived after goals, yet in the current status we live in, it is almost as if we have been force fed an altered term of equality.

If we want true equality we all have to be willing to change both solitarily and together as a unit. It won't be easy but when is change ever easy.

A caterpillar has to say goodbye to the only life it knows to become a butterfly.

Let us strive to reformat our world or at least country to the true definition of equality. Where all people are of same importance no matter their history.


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