Harrison Bergeron Fair And Equality

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Equality and Fair are two different things. Equality is the state of being equal in things like rights or opportunities but fair is the meaning of being in the accordance to standards or rules. When people think of these two terms they think they are the same but this is false because like in Harrison Bergeron all equality is not possible because by making something fair you could be taking another person’s rights which is what they did in the story. In the story the ballerina’s rights were taken away because they were not able to show their full potential because they were weight down by being handicapped therefore that isn’t fair. The people couldn’t so the jobs they excelled at because the people who wanted to do it but could had those jobs.

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