Hurting me is not the way to help others
Every time a black person gets the job, a white person doesn't and vice versa. It is impossible to be fair without hurting someone because there are not infinite numbers of positions. So if a company has historically been lily white, does being fair mean that the only black people who can now be hired have to be better than every other white applicant? Are you better than every other black applicant?
Lots of colleges have preferences for descendants of alumni. Is this fair, particularly when the school has a dearth of Asian alumni? How is it different from affirmative action?
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Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846)
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. Martin Luther King
If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions? Scott Adams
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