Harrison Bergeron Research Paper

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Harrison Bergeron vs Today

Kurt Vonnegut’s “Harrison Bergeron” teaches a lesson that everyone can relate to. The idea of an equalized society may indeed sound intriguing. Even though equality can be damaging, there is be both a negative and positive effect on equalizing everything. There is a difference between equal and equality and but everyone deserves to be equal in some ways. Whether it is gender or racial equalization, it will affect nearly everyone in one way or another.
In Vonnegut’s short story, all the citizens were the same in every which way possible. Whether it was one intelligence or size of each person the government found a way to handicap each individual. The government had installed handicappers unique to each individual and was “required by law to wear it at all times” (Vonnegut 1.) Having everyone handicapped shows the negative aspect of a utopian society. This can tie into today’s social problems but in a more positive way. In order to make couples who were man-woman or man-man/woman-woman equal Congress made a decision to legalize same-sex marriage. Recently, we made same-sex marriage equal to “traditional” marriages. In order to make individuals …show more content…

Everyone having health care is a way that the government wants to equalize its citizens. As Kurt Vonnegut would say, “everybody was finally equal” (Vonnegut 1.) Unfortunately, everyone does not have the luxury to afford health insurance. The government then came up government healthcare that would try to put everyone a step closer to being on the same socioeconomic level. Some people believe that government healthcare is a good, but it comes with pros and cons. One of the pros is that everyone will have access to health care. On the other hand, there are new taxes installed for people who earn over a certain threshold or businesses in the health care

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