In Harrison Bergeron's story, the year is 2081, and because of the 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments to the Constitution, everyone has been made equal by different types of disabilities. . If someone was too pretty, too smart, or too strong, they were made to carry disabilities in order to be equal to others who were just “average.” One of the main themes of Harrison Bergeron's short story is total equality. If any of the citizens are above average, they must carry disabilities to make them equal. The only people who don't have to carry a disability are average people and the government. Vonnegut's structure of total equality would never work, because it weakens the human race and shuts down all creativity. Kurt Vonnegut wrote this story to help us realize that equality is about making no man or woman better than another. The major theme of this story is that equality is about rights, not attributes like beauty, strength, and intelligence. Individuality is seen as a threat to general disability. Government social control is used to collectivize and penalize anyone above average. This story validates the dangers of government control and ignorance by showing what true and complete equality could lead to. Equality is the only legal standard and all individual freedom, personal responsibility and the rule of law are eliminated. Free thought and action become impossible because disabilities stand in the way of individuality. Vonnegut ridicules the fear of change and uncertainty. He suggests that this idea of ​​complete equality can be dangerous if presented too literally. Although there are many bad things that could become complete equality in the world, things like crime, hatred, war and discrimination would disappear. There couldn't be discrimination and hatred in the world if everyone was exactly the same.