[Summary and Explanation] The term "discrimination," or the social phenomenon it represents, has drawn significant attention, likely because the vast majority of people strongly love and pursue equality. Discrimination, however, opposes, negates, and destroys equality. Equality, as a value, has different levels of meaning, such as formal equality, substantive equality, opportunity equality... Not all forms of equality are what modern people should pursue, as absolute equality does not exist. "Discrimination" may also be similar in this regard—-not all instances of it should be condemned or pursued legally. The author feels that there may be some misunderstandings when people pay attention to and evaluate so-called "discrimination." Although analyzing the concept of "equality" can clarify these misunderstandings to some extent, the author attempts to use knowledge from sociology, economics, and legal studies to explore the nature of "discrimination" directly, hoping that this will be meaningful.
It should be noted that due to the author's limited knowledge and other reasons, the analysis in this article may oversimplify the issue and appear rather rough. Therefore, the author invites insightful readers to criticize and offer guidance.