Match the following concepts with appropriate instances:

(a). Affirmative action (b). Equality of opportunity (c). Equal Rights

(i) Every adult citizen has a right to vote. (ii) Banks offer higher rate of interest to senior citizens. (iii) Every child should get free education.

A government report on farmers’ problems says that small and marginal farmers cannot get good prices from the market. It recommends that the government should intervene to ensure a better price but only for small and marginal farmers. Is this recommendation consistent with the principle of equality?

Which of the following violate the principles of equality? And why?

(a) Every child in class will read the text of the play by turn.

(b) The government of Canada encouraged white Europeans to migrate to Canada from the end of the Second world War till 1960.

(c) There is a separate railway reservation counter for the senior citizens.

Some people argue that inequality is natural while others maintain that it is equality which is natural and the inequalities which we notice around us are created by society. Which view do you support? Give reasons.

There is a view that absolute economic equality is neither possible nor desirable. It is argued that the most a society can do is to try and reduce the gaps between the richest and the poorest members of the society. Do you agree?