I'm afraid that the search to end inequality will only result in tyranny. Equality of outcome and Equality of opportunity are both abstract ideas, impossible to implement without controlling every facet of an individual's life, and treating those individuals as a mere means to an end.
Nobody alive today has anything to do with the actions of their progenitures, so affirmitative action and other calls for reparation is forcing the law to engage in a form of historical culpability which is not a game that anyone can win. The best way to ensure equality is to enforce the law equally, and the best way to ensure that social capital is being developed is to give poor people the opportunity to engage the arena without regulatory imposition, and without having to worry about filling some quota. I'm willing to bet you a million dollars that there is a black men, probably mid-40's, who is an epic genius, sitting on his couch, smoking marijuana because school is a bore and because he can't get around the thousands of pieces of legislation that prohibit him from entering the market. Christopher Langan was a bouncer. How many more of them are out there, restricted by the tyranny of psuedointellectuals who monpolize education and industry.
I'm afraid that the search to end inequality will only result in tyranny. Equality of outcome and Equality of opportunity are both abstract ideas, impossible to implement without controlling every facet of an individual's life, and treating those individuals as a mere means to an end.
Nobody alive today has anything to do with the actions of their progenitures, so affirmitative action and other calls for reparation is forcing the law to engage in a form of historical culpability which is not a game that anyone can win. The best way to ensure equality is to enforce the law equally, and the best way to ensure that social capital is being developed is to give poor people the opportunity to engage the arena without regulatory imposition, and without having to worry about filling some quota. I'm willing to bet you a million dollars that there is a black men, probably mid-40's, who is an epic genius, sitting on his couch, smoking marijuana because school is a bore and because he can't get around the thousands of pieces of legislation that prohibit him from entering the market. Christopher Langan was a bouncer. How many more of them are out there, restricted by the tyranny of psuedointellectuals who monpolize education and industry.