Presidential Executive Order 14075 as it relates to collective action policy. The order aims to combat unlawful discrimination and eliminate disparities that harm LGBTQI+ individuals and their families, defend their rights and safety, and pursue a comprehensive approach to delivering the full promise of equality for LGBTQI+ individuals. I argue this policy, while well-intended, is a collective action policy that will lead to economic stagnation and generate more disparities that it will resolve.
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Hi Kyle,
I do agree with you, and our peers who commented on your post, that the government is tending towards more forced equality. This equality, unfortunately, is one of conditions and not just opportunity. It seeks to legitimize people groups while others still hesitate, on moral grounds, as to whether or not they should be legitimized. Alexis de Tocqueville, when looking at America in the 1830s, said "There is in fact a manly and legitimate passion for equality that spurs all men to wish to be strong and esteemed. This passion tends to elevate the lesser to the rank of the greater. But one also finds in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to want to bring the strong down to their level, and which reduces men to preferring equality in servitude to inequality in freedom." Unfortunately much is done in the name of equality and Americans need to realize that trying to achieve total equality is impossible and we should instead seek to allow all to have the same opportunities and not the same outcomes. I believe it would be interesting to look into how America has been using the banner of equality for the LGBTQ+ community while making those outside of that community "less equal."
All the best,
-Ryley