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AmericanChopper on June 4, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Curiosity and What Equality Really Means

>Perhaps all people deserve a chance to earn respect. That's different.

You’re talking about equality of opportunity. On HN, the word “equality” is pretty much always just an abbreviation for “equality of outcome”.

supreme_sublime on June 4, 2018 [–]

I'd encourage you to amend "equality of opportunity" to "equality of opportunity under the law". I've seen too many people try to argue that if we want equality of opportunity we still have to actively level opportunity.

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