The lexical meaning of “equity” is non-preferential treatment, while “equality” is the state or quality of being equal. Equity is handing out the same amount of boxes to anyone, independent of their abilities. Equality is the quality or state of being able to access the same resource, namely watching the game. This can only be acheived by handing out an unequal amount of boxes based on the abilities of each person.

In an environment where each individual has unequal abilities, equity will produce inequality. In such an environment, the only way to accomplish equality, is to be inequitable, which by definition is unfair. Unless everyone is exactly equally equipped with abilities, and everyone acts in the exact same manner, equity will never bring about equality.

Go to Merriam-Webster and look it up.

I also wonder from where you got your illustration. It is an excellent illustration of the difference, and I’d like to use it in my text on this subject. There are several different variants of this, but since this is without text, it will work for me. WIll you accept my request to use this illustration?

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