“If … it is imperative that ‘life-chances’ be equalized through an equalization of wealth and income, then we may ask to be told whether the same imperative also requires such measures as are implemented in the nightmare worlds of L. P. Hartley and Kurt Vonnegut; and if not, why not. (The former, in ‘Facial Justice,’ tells of the pretty undergoing plastic surgery to remove their envy-provoking excesses of appeal. In the story ‘Harrison Bergeron,’ the latter described those with talents above average being implanted physiologically with anti-pacesetters, curbing them down to the level of the rest).” – Antony Flew, The Politics of Procrustes,1981
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