Simone De Beauvoir

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Every human being is equal, despite the race, gender, or sexual orientation. Each human being has something different to share, but discrimination interferes with the freedom of diversity. Discrimination, has always been a part of us. It has been with us since the beginning and is still with us today. Discrimination comes in many forms, whether it is racism, segregation, slavery, denial of voting rights, women's rights, and job discrimination. It is just something that will always be inevitable. Humans will contemplate differently about everything, everyone, in a sense has a different point of view in certain things. Although we do not all think the same, we should be treated the same. I view discrimination as unjust. As we are humans and …show more content…

However, every human being is also a particular being. We are all different, but no one is better than anybody else. (“Simone de Beauvoir”). This hits discrimination very well as woman were discriminated by society and compared to against men. In a sense, they were segregated, isolated by choice, and secluded from everyone else. In her argument, men were viewed as the subject and women were the object. Imagine a circle, a fixed point was put in the center, that would represent the men, and outside of the circle, being blocked by the boundaries from the circle, would epitomize the women. Their rights were set by boundaries and rules. They were discriminated and segregated in innumerable …show more content…

All genders, race, sexual orientations should be overlooked. We are all equal human beings. Like Aristotle says, “The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.” Equality is where we should all stand. Imagine a line that is perfectly in the middle, we should all be on that line. No one should feel out of place, or discriminated against to be away from that line. As I said before, discrimination, and all the different forms of it are unconstitutional. Discrimination should be completely abolished, and everyone should be treated equally. “I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed; We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal” (Martin Luther King

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