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> But woukd Daniel have been satisfied were he told he was too rich for the honors program? No, Daniel would be happy if he was judged on his individual merit.
by ramblerman 5y ago
> But woukd Daniel have been satisfied were he told he was too rich for the honors program?
No, Daniel would be happy if he was judged on his individual merit.
Honest question, what if we swing the pendulum too far with fixing the past. Do we then need to be racist again in the other direction in the future to fix that?
It's a ridiculous idea to try and tweak society at this level, and the only correct fix is unequivocally enforcing equal opportunity at the level of the individual.
- shadowgovt 5y ago> and the only correct fix is unequivocally enforcing equal opportunity at the level of the individual. We lack the power to do that. You can't control who somebody's parents are, and we observe that birth status has huge statistical significance in opportunities available to an individual. Well... Some countries have tried experiments with making everybody wards of the state, but the observed outcomes were not desirable.