In the short story Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut, the U.S. Constitution mandates that all people must be fully equal. Those who are strong must be restrained by weights so that they are no more athletic than anyone else. The good-looking must be masked so they are no more attractive. The intelligent must wear earpieces that disrupt their lines of thought so they are no smarter. And so on. In the story, the title character’s parents watch a ballet on TV, with the beautiful, athletic dancers masked and weighed down. If everyone is to be fully equal, the best must be encumbered so they perform no better than the clumsy. Harrison himself is highly intelligent and physically imposing, a towering 7 feet tall at only 14 years old but encumbered by 300 pounds of equalizing...