3 ms·
In some sense, can virtue signal all I want, because I have no children. It's very much in my interest that education be distributed evenly, rather than hoarded
by adamwong246 3y ago
In some sense, can virtue signal all I want, because I have no children. It's very much in my interest that education be distributed evenly, rather than hoarded by a minority of monied families.
- JohnClark1337 3y ago[dead]
- speakfreely 3y ago> In some sense, can virtue signal all I want, because I have no children. Well, you're admitting there's no personal cost to your advocacy, which makes sense and I can't really argue you're not entitled to feel that way. Like in criminal justice reform, homelessness advocacy, etc. everyone is a liberal until the first time they get robbed, the first time someone smashes their car window, etc. Personal cost has a way to delivering reality to people who are disconnected from it. > It's very much in my interest that education be distributed evenly If there was no cost to the high performing students to keep everyone in public schools, I would actually 100% agree with you. But limiting the upper percentiles' outcomes to deliver almost negligible changes to the bottom percentile doesn't seem fair, either.
- adamwong246 3y agoIt's going to be very hard to improve society if I cannot convince others to act against against their own narrow, immediate self-interest at least some of the time. Society rapidly dissolves under such conditions. Indeed, can such an arrangement be called "society" at all?