But that's the issue, nothing should be done for a certain result because that's assuming there is some omniscient knowledge of what is the "right" outcome. That just doesn't exist so attempting it will always lead to chaos.
Give people freedom and the opportunity to do what they want, and then the result will naturally be the fairest possible.
> Give people freedom and the opportunity to do what they want, and then the result will naturally be the fairest possible.
If we all started with the same options, this would be true. Our limits would only be reflections of our preferences and natural abilities. Like in an RPG where we pick wether to be a warrior or mage or whatever - you go down a skills path by choice based on what you want to achieve and what resources (xp etc) you have.
Unfortunately people are born into an active system wherein millions of events from before they were born are exerting pressures on their lives, pressures that we are mostly unaware of until it’s too late.
There’s no neutral “fair” option. This sucks. It’s bad. It’s stupid. People’s location or race or sex at birth should not bless them or condemn them. It should just be an interesting detail. But those things have real effects.
Ignoring this means accepting the current biases as somehow natural, and continues rewarding those already born with advantages. Fighting it means adding NEW biases, and reducing the advantages inherited by people with privilege. Which naturally seems unreasonable if you currently enjoy the benefits of those advantages.
Solutions like yours, which require no work be done to change things by the privileged, and ask the less privileged to reinterpret the status quo so that they realize things are fine as they are, should be suspect. They are not all definitely wrong, but they are especially attractive because of their convenience. And that pretty exterior can mask their lack of actual substance.
No, bias is still bias. You do not beat discrimination by discriminating against another group of people.
Don't focus on the outcome and try to engineer what you think is fair. That only leads to chaos because you can't possibly understand every individual's life experience.
Life will never be fair. That is a fundamental aspect of reality, so trying to arrange the future without perfect omniscience means you are doing nothing more than adding another roll of the dice. It may seem like you're equalizing things, but you're not.
Like I said, the focus should be on opportunity. That is vastly different than outcome, and it does mean that we should strive to make it so that anyone from any background has a chance to do what they want to do. That doesn't mean that some won't have to worker harder than others, again life isn't fair and that'll always be a part of it, but the chance is what matters. As long as people have a chance, then they have a chance to achieve their goals and dreams and actually find happiness. That's the only way it works.
Give people freedom and the opportunity to do what they want, and then the result will naturally be the fairest possible.