The faults with the "equality theory"

The post about women and sports reminded me about the equality problem.

I have mentioned several times how the colorblind theory is only hindering and is very dangerous for the minority (and only a blemish to a white person).

Most people want equality. Its natural. But the thing is, equality is not possible. Can we make the world better by treating people right? Yes, but is it possible to have equality in an extremely racist country? No.

There is a major underlying problem with the equality theory...treating people the same takes away individuality.

I stated in a different post that everyone is born with different opportunities in life, while racism deniers refuse to accept that people are born with different opportunities in life, it doesn't change the fact that some have to work harder, much harder than others.

The thing is, according to the "equality theory", hard work is not taken into account. There is the assumption that both had the same opportunities. They don't realize that sometimes the amount of hard work one experiences over the other could make all the difference.

While no one should be mistreated especially over things they have absolutely no control over, we shouldn't try to erase individuality.

I onced argued that universal rules does more damage than making rules based on the person.

For instance: 2 people are late to school. The rules says if you are late you get 1 week of detention. Person A is late for the first time ever and has never been in trouble previously. Person B though is always late, in fact this is the second time in the course of 2 weeks alone. They are always getting in trouble.

According to that universal rule both would be punished the same? Its obvious that it doesn't work on Person B because they are still being late so shouldn't they be punished more severly? And with Person A, it seems like their tardiness is not a common thing for them, so shouldn't they have a lighter sentence?

In this case the equality theory punishes too severely for one person because it does not cover the situation of being a good student who just happened to be late, and it punishes too lightly for the repeat offender because it didn't take into account the student always being late.

Here is another example: The student newspaper didn't follow the guidelines for student activities. They are being shut down for not sending reports and stuff into the administration. This paper has earned several awards for their work. Some people argue they should be punished like everyone else even though they have all these awards.

But the thing is, should they? Shouldn't the awards and achievements be taken into account?

Essentially the equality theory results in rules that are universal, but these universal rules lack any compassion for the individual because it does not answer those special cases.

Only problem is that we are forced to use the equality theory because America is too hateful and racist to be trusted with following anything but universal rules (which already get bent and manipulated by racists and other types of haters).