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People will wax poetically about meritocracy and fairness. Then they will get children of their own and think to themselves that giving them all the advantages
by Dewie 12y ago
People will wax poetically about meritocracy and fairness. Then they will get children of their own and think to themselves that giving them all the advantages that they can get is their newest and most moral goal.
- verbin217 12y agoMeritocracy is a nonsensical construct and rarely amounts to anything more than further nourishing the already nourished. Often to the exclusion of nourishing those that actually need it. It's a perverse, self-deluding form of domination.
- analog31 12y agoGuilty as charged. But realistically, I know of no society where parents don't favor the interests of their own children, resulting in a trend towards increasing disparity. Perhaps the best we can hope for is to remember that perfect meritocracy is utopian, and can't be reconciled with fairness, so long as individuals can choose to whom they share their advantages -- indeed when we can't even all agree on what those advantages are. So we look for second best, for instance, endorsing social and economic measures that counteract that disparity.
- Dewie 12y ago> But realistically, I know of no society where parents don't favor the interests of their own children, "But realistically, everyone else is doing it..." Yes. I didn't have any particular society in mind. Just our own nature.
- millermp12 12y agoFrom casual observation, it would seem a lot of black communities are not afflicted with this moral dillemma. What's more the latest US Census post points quite clearly to a powerful assortat I've mating effect.