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Quote by: Athena While we still have discrimination, look at all the people who think it is wrong, since we made a law clarifying it is wrong. |
Yeah, that back decades ago, in the sixties. Today, we're telling people that discrimination is right, that it's neccessary.
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Quote by: Athena When it is the White man discriminated against, he finally gets the wrongness of discrimination. |
People get the wrongness of discrimination. They don't need unjust laws to remind them, and they don't need to discriminated against when they've done nothing wrong.
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Quote by: Athena It's a great idea to cater to the less qualified or less skilled, because when we do, these people become qualified and skilled and that is what we want. |
No, it's not. I don't want the nuclear engineers to be those who placed in the bottom of their physics class. I want qualified people where they can do important jobs right.
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Quote by: Athena Another thread is about a police tower watching over neighborhoods. Is this the kind of world you want to create, or one where people have good social bonds? The choice is yours. |
I'm a little less ambitious. All I'd ask for is a world where people are judged on who they are, not on how they were born.
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Quote by: Athena How were we better than barbarians? |
You mean before affirmative action? We had a merit-based society, instead of a race-based society.
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Quote by: Athena What does it mean to be civil? |
Yup, still going with merit-based society.