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I can't quite pinpoint it, but something feels off about this reasoning. No matter what, some group of people is going to be at a disadvantage. It doesn't real

• raziel2p 6y ago
  "Everyone" kind of includes minorities. And how do you define "trying"? Is making social media posts on diversity enough to qualify as trying, even if your hiring process only hires white dudes?
• mwcampbell 6y ago
  Here are the best responses I can give to that: 1. Fully abled people are already, as John Scalzi put it (with regard to another category), playing on the lowest difficulty setting, across all of their lives. SO I think it's not so bad to take away some advantages, to level the playing field. 2. There are different kinds of disadvantages. There are disadvantages from skills you haven't yet learned, and there are disadvantages from abilities you can never have. What I propose is to replace the latter category for some people with the former category for others. Of course, if biotech someday allows us to give physical abilities to people who don't have them, that changes the equation. And perhaps my thick accent example was weak; my understanding is that it's possible, with great difficulty, to change one's accent.