Equality and Reservation

Can reservation and equality go together? Does not the idea of reservation undermine equality? Why 'bend' the yardstick to accommodate some? Bending the 'yardstick' seems to go against the concept of equality. 

If 10,000 people are given 1 million each, how many will have exactly 1 million at the end of a year?  I bet none of them will have exactly the same amount. Some would have invested the money and make lot more; while some would have spent the whole amount and have even borrowed money from others. Some of those who spent the whole amount might have done it because one of their relatives fell sick;  or she met an accident herself and now needs help to continue living. So due to certain unfortunate events in their lives, some people have lost everything. There are going to be those who have lost everything because they were lazy or just got into drugs.  For those who have made more money, depending on how skilful or educated one is, different people might have made different amount of money.  Given this inequality in the way human beings are, there will be differences of earning and spending money. 

The children of these different people will then face different conditions depending on how their parents lived -- earned or spent money. The children of these children will go through these difference too. Once these differences have solidified, certain children will not be able to get out of the pithole themselves. That's when reservation system has to come in and take people out of the pithole. Not everyone who has lost everything lost it due to laziness or carelessness. There are circumstances in life which are beyond our control. Given these circumstances, there are those who genuinely need help in the form of reservation... so that a society of equals can be established -- or sought to be established. Without such reservation system in place, these people in pithole will never be able to rise up. Equality and reservation can go hand in hand; in fact, a society committed to equality has to have reservation system.

Our human history has arrived where we are today from different vantage point. In fact, we all did not start equally. Some landed in a fertile place; others in a rocky soil. Some in hot place, and others in cold place. Not only are humans gifted differently; even our environments are different. And these differences will reinforce our differences even more as time goes. Those who are more fortunate should not forget those who are less fortunate. To be human is to be different from others; yet to be a good human is to care for those who are less fortunate.