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Well, I for one think “the goal of equality” should be discarded. People are to be treated equally and we already have the declaration of universal human rights
by nubero 4y ago
Well, I for one think “the goal of equality” should be discarded. People are to be treated equally and we already have the declaration of universal human rights as a foundational and international document for that.
If you want people to end up all “being equal” to one another you will just end up on the farm, where all animals are equal but some are more equal than others.
Also, I think it quite amusing that you call what Fermi said “a strong claim” and a “moral judgement” and a few lines down you have the audacity to say that certain “ideas need to be discarded”. First of all, some of the “ideas” you talk about are indeed facts. And then who on earth do you think you are to tell other people what they may think of?
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- cetahfh14615 4y agoyou're sort of assuming what I mean by "equality" I'm not talking about leveling, I'm talking about something more like job applications that are completely race-sex-etc blind, where that signal isn't even allowed into the mix. I think that in a truly meritocratic system you'll see a diverse representation. No, it might not be perfectly diverse, but it would lead to more (and fairer) diversity and not less
- nubero 4y agoIn the international FIDE list of chess grandmasters, 39 out of 1953 are female. That’s 2%. And while I’m certain that there’s some icky misogynistic men who have made some decisions in that regard, I’m equally certain that we will never see the ratio being fifty-fifty. Not even close. That being said, I really don’t care what we will see or what the outcome will be in a truly meritocratic system. I’m just interested in the merit.