Acoustic on Nostr: :aam_flag:❄ℕ𝕠𝕣𝕧𝕚𝕥 ᵀʰᵉ 𝕀𝕟𝕦𝕚𝕥❄:aam_flag: When ...
:aam_flag:❄ℕ𝕠𝕣𝕧𝕚𝕥 ᵀʰᵉ 𝕀𝕟𝕦𝕚𝕥❄:aam_flag: (nprofile…zlxp) When you treat everyone the same, you fail to account for existing discrepancies and inequalities.
Say you’re a rice farmer in a communal society. You distribute rice across households, and you choose to give each household the same amount of rice per person.
However, one of the homes is broken down due to the community neglecting it. As a result it has a mouse infestation. The mice get into their storage and eat the rice, so about 1/4 of their rice disappears before they can eat it. No one is fixing this problem, either because they can’t or because they don’t care.
Another household belongs to a very nice woman who raises chickens. She doesn’t have to do this, but she does, because it’s the community’s only source of protein. She uses her own rice for the chicken feed.
If you simply give all the houses the same amount of rice per person—that is, treating all of them the same—then the family with the mouse problem will suffer, because they lose a portion of their rice. And the old lady is left with two options: Either give up on providing eggs and chicken to the community because she is tired of having to sacrifice her own rice stores, or continue to suffer through not having all the rice she needs for herself in order to continue to contribute something very valuable to the community.
Treating everyone the same punishes those who are at a disadvantage, discourages good people from doing good, and forces the most ethical people to suffer.
Say you’re a rice farmer in a communal society. You distribute rice across households, and you choose to give each household the same amount of rice per person.
However, one of the homes is broken down due to the community neglecting it. As a result it has a mouse infestation. The mice get into their storage and eat the rice, so about 1/4 of their rice disappears before they can eat it. No one is fixing this problem, either because they can’t or because they don’t care.
Another household belongs to a very nice woman who raises chickens. She doesn’t have to do this, but she does, because it’s the community’s only source of protein. She uses her own rice for the chicken feed.
If you simply give all the houses the same amount of rice per person—that is, treating all of them the same—then the family with the mouse problem will suffer, because they lose a portion of their rice. And the old lady is left with two options: Either give up on providing eggs and chicken to the community because she is tired of having to sacrifice her own rice stores, or continue to suffer through not having all the rice she needs for herself in order to continue to contribute something very valuable to the community.
Treating everyone the same punishes those who are at a disadvantage, discourages good people from doing good, and forces the most ethical people to suffer.