Thoughts On Affirmative Action
對於平權法案的看法
Oftentimes in life, our success depends on factors which were decided without our own active participation. In order to alleviate some obvious discrepancies in the degree of difficulty of the lives of people born to different circumstances, affirmative action is a policy or legal path towards assisting those who have been deemed to face historical or overly unfair difficulties arising from factors which they had no control over. Well seemingly positive and helpful when looked at from a surface level and direct point of view, affirmative action is an issue that is nevertheless hotly debated and argued about for a variety of different reasons, encompassing issues of fairness, plausibility, practicality, and the forms with which it may take, to just name a few. The students studied examples of affirmative action and the reasoning and logic behind why these policies were put into place. Here they discuss their personal feelings and thoughts on this complicated matter.
人一生中所獲得的成功，往往取決於一些外在、非我們自身能掌控的因素。平權法案的誕生旨在減少人與人之間在待遇上因出身背景而導致的差異，幫助因歷史或其他非自身因素而面臨種種困難的群體。從表面上或直觀的角度來說，平權行動似乎是正向且有助益的，但他一值以來都是一個被熱議的話題，人們爭論的內容包括其公平性、合理性、實用性、以及能採取的形式等。學生們研究了平權法案的案例，以及這些政策背後的原因和邏輯。以下是他們對於這個複雜議題的個人感受和想法。