Some Principles Underpinning Equality laws
Channel: mohsenalattar1
Date: 2014-01-04

Equality wears many hats. It is a concept with legal, sociological and, increasingly, ecumenical inclinations. It is an aspiration, promising — and occasionally pursuing --varied versions and levels of comparable treatment for incomparable people. It is a triumph, having created opportunities where they had been previously denied. And, perhaps most interestingly of all, it is a victim, having been bloodied by political machination, economic predation and, to a great extent over the past decade, moral degradation.

In the following clip, I discuss three key principles in the formulation of equality laws. Equality in treatment, equality in outcomes and equality in opportunities represent three different conceptions of the value, each of which possesses both strengths and flaws.