The society Vonnegut created takes equality to a level that most of us cannot understand. "The year was 2081, and everyone was finally equal. They weren't just equal before God and the law. They were equal in every way. No one was smarter than anyone else. No one was more beautiful than anyone else. No one was stronger or faster than anyone else." Equality is a great thing that the world should embrace; complete equality, however, is another matter. In a world of absolute equality, each human being would be considered no more or less than the person next to them. Vonnegut highlights these questions about how equality can be taken to the extreme with disabilities. The handicaps are brutal and seem almost primitive or medieval. Bags filled with lead bullets that are tied around Georges' neck, or even masks that the ballerinas are forced to wear. The goal is to try to manipulate the population in such a way that humans will produce children who are all within the relativity average and the