If differences are bad, why did God, our creator, make us different, inside and out? Harrison Bergeron, differences or equality? In the short story “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut, equality was finally achieved. Everyone "was equal in every way. No one was smarter than anyone. No one was more beautiful than anyone. No one was stronger or faster than anyone." Yet this equality is not natural, “all this equality was due to the 211th, 212th and 213th amendments to the Constitution” and “the incessant vigilance of the agents of the United States Handicapper General”. Doesn't this mean that equality is not natural? That it was better to be different as God, our creator, created us. After all, even though it has been stated that “everyone is ultimately equal,” differences still exist. the leader and his followers, those who command and those who are commanded. If all things were equal, there should be no difference in power and yet HG's men took George and Hazel Bergeron's fourteen-year-old son Harrison »....