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- Hazel had aperfectly average intelligence, which meant she couldn't think about anything except in shortbursts.
- And George, while his intelligence was way above normal, had a little mental handicapradio in his ear. He was required by law to wear it at all times. It was tuned to a governmenttransmitter.
- That was a real pretty dance, that dance they just did, said Hazel.
- Yup, said George. He tried to think a little about the ballerinas. They weren't really very goodno better than anybody else would have been, anyway. They were burdened with sashweightsand bags of birdshot, and their faces were masked, so that no one, seeing a free and gracefulgesture or a pretty face, would feel like something the cat drug in.
- 3 It was such a doozy that George was white and trembling, and tears stood on the rims of his redeyes. Two of of the eight ballerinas had collapsed to the studio floor, were holding their temples
- 1Right, said George. He began to think glimmeringly about his abnormal son who was now injail, about Harrison, but a twenty-one-gun salute in his head stopped that.
- 4 All of a sudden you look so tired, said Hazel. Why don't you stretch out on the sofa, so's youcan rest your handicap bag on the pillows, honeybunch. She was referring to the forty-sevenpounds of birdshot in a canvas bag, which was padlocked around George's neck.
- 2 Boy! said Hazel, that was a doozy, wasn't it?
- 1If I tried to get away with it, said George, then other people'd get away with it-and pretty soonwe'd be right back to the dark ages again, with everybody competing against everybody else.You wouldn't like that, would you?
- 3There you are, said George. The minute people start cheating on laws, what do you think happens to society?
- 2I'd hate it, said Hazel.
- 2What would? said George blankly.
- 4Who knows? said George.
- 3Society, said Hazel uncertainly. Wasn't that what you just said?
- 1 Reckon it'd fall all apart, said Hazel.
- In his story Harrison Bergeron, Kurt Vonnegut makes the point that the idea of all people being equal is absurd. All humans are made differently with unique strengths and weaknesses. Trying to ensure equality by restricting or enhancing these traits is ridiculous.
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