Balance – A Key To A More Just World

Some individuals will say that the key to a more just world and tool to be able to solve the problems of today's society is equality. Others say that equality will lead to catastrophe and the destruction of society with its rules that accompany it. I think and believe that a perfect world should have a balance. Imagine this: You are in an equal world, you are a qualified doctor, high school and university alumnus. With a thousand specializations, master's degrees and doctorates. You apply for the doctor position. If you were not in an equal world, only the best doctors would prefer for the work. But we are not in a "not equal" world. The hospital would hire everyone, no matter what. Regardless of whether you were someone who did not finish high school or who had thousands of degrees and familiarity on the subject. Do you think this is fair? You who spent nearly half of your life working to know what you know, it seems right that someone who didn't graduate from high school had the same chances of getting hired in the same job as you? Equality is not fair. Being competitive is something that you learn from a very young age.

For Example, The first one to grab the teddy bear, the first one to eat all his food or the first one to fall asleep. But being competitive is not a bad thing, sometimes it can be something beneficial. Competitive people do more work and try harder only for the sake of winning. Strive and do more work can result in a better job just to be the best. Also, these people are more likely to be creative and thinkers in terms of finding solutions to different problems. People who are more competitive are more able to identify the weaknesses and strengths of themselves and others.

Competitiveness is what you look for in someone in connection with our example of doctors. The companies look for people that are competitive because the way to be able to surpass the rest and because they are able to look for the most creative and perfect solutions. We need people to order and people to follow, but in a world without competitiveness or in a world where we all have the same opportunities, we are not able to differentiate leaders and followers. Equality is not productive. In Harrison Bergeron, all sort of intelligence is “taken away” by the government with the use of technology. Being physically unique is necessary for advancement. Researchers say the main motivation behind why life matters is to enhance the race, enhance the bloodline, each time adjusting to survive longer. Everybody is diverse and this allows the Human Race to enhance and advance. Natural Selection happens because of mutations, everybody has unique transformations that can either enable us to adjust to our situation, or to get favourable conditions within our actions. Owning or differences also facilitates the way we communicate, better-looking people are usually more social due to them having fewer vulnerabilities. But, at the same time, this has negative effects on less good-looking people. Less unattractive people, cause fewer people to want to be beside them and people are usually harsher and less charismatic. If everyone was equal, people would have fewer vulnerabilities, since there would be fewer appeal standards, causing less eating disorders since everyone would already have the “Perfect Body”.

Harrison Bergeron points this when George Bergeron is seeing the ballerinas on the television “. . . their faces were masked, so that no one, seeing a free and graceful gesture or a pretty face, would feel like something the cat drug in. ”; Harrison Bergeron society covers the face of the most beautiful people, just so that no one considers themselves ugly, all of this to make people feel more secure about who they are. Harrison Bergeron even though he believed he could overthrow the government, he is more important than we think. Harrison Bergeron is the complete opposite of what the government wants and has the characteristic that an equal person shouldn't have. He is seven feet tall, immensely strong, and extremely handsome. He shows us the importance of differences, with his actions. Gustavo Wilches