Equal opportunities do not always mean equal outcomes

JULIE Anne Genter and other feminists of her ilk would do well to note that equality means equal opportunity — it does not mean equal outcomes.

Go ahead and endorse and promote level playing fields, by all means, but not quotabased team selection and not a level scoreboard (i.e. outcomes independent of performance and merit).

Such reeks of ‘‘Big Government’’ ideologydriven meddling, monitoring and control at the expense of private freedoms to justly motivate, promote and appoint people based on local situation and merit (i.e. blind to sex and race, etc).

More broadly, equality does not mean treating everyone the same. That’s just moronic. We are all equal under God but we are not the same.

Stop trying to treat us like we’re toddlers in a playground who need to be dished out an equal portion of sweets! How old are these nannystate libtards? They’re acting like teenagers who’ve never had to motivate and manage team performance in the real world.

And so, back off, MP Julie Anne G. It’s the job of our nation’s various hiring managers to do the hiring and firing, not yours. They are best positioned to do so — you are not. Christopher Watson

Burnside

Council common sense

IN the past two years, the Dunedin City Council has stopped at least two large hotel developments.And now — after watching Fair Go — it wants to stop a group of enterprising young kids from having a tree hut their grandfather built.

Would the council sooner have the kids sitting watching TV or playing tiddlywinks than out developing life skills? We know a lot of our city councillors do sit and play tiddlywinks.

It seems the only things that get the green light in the city at the moment are cycleways and bollards. How about some common sense?

Leigh Pickford

Andersons Bay ...................................

BIBLE READING: But love your enemies, do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return. — Luke 6:35.