I believe I know what you allude to. I take a perverse fascination reading about past or current events, where the legal system uses pretzel logic to effectively allow racial (sex, etc.) preferences in the name of equial protection under the law. There are numerous examples, take your pick. On the topic of university admissions alone, th…
I believe I know what you allude to. I take a perverse fascination reading about past or current events, where the legal system uses pretzel logic to effectively allow racial (sex, etc.) preferences in the name of equial protection under the law. There are numerous examples, take your pick. On the topic of university admissions alone, there are several Supreme Court decisions and probably more in the pipeline. Fundamentally, the problem can be traced back to (at least) The Enlightenment, the idea that all men were equal before God, the Law, etc. As the centuries progress, the egalitarian zeal gets applied to new domains usually without consideration of success or failure of prior attempts. The unhappy reality is that men are not equal, nor will they ever be so. As a result, attempt at a one-size-fits-all legal, justice, moral, etc. system is doomed from the outset.
I believe I know what you allude to. I take a perverse fascination reading about past or current events, where the legal system uses pretzel logic to effectively allow racial (sex, etc.) preferences in the name of equial protection under the law. There are numerous examples, take your pick. On the topic of university admissions alone, there are several Supreme Court decisions and probably more in the pipeline. Fundamentally, the problem can be traced back to (at least) The Enlightenment, the idea that all men were equal before God, the Law, etc. As the centuries progress, the egalitarian zeal gets applied to new domains usually without consideration of success or failure of prior attempts. The unhappy reality is that men are not equal, nor will they ever be so. As a result, attempt at a one-size-fits-all legal, justice, moral, etc. system is doomed from the outset.