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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
You're telling me I have affirmative duties to care about certain people? Where do you get that?
I am pro-affirmative action and pro-crim justice reform because these things redress societal wrongs. They intend to even a playing field which is not even. I don't care who benefits from them, nor do I have a duty to care who benefits from them. The sole calculation is that where some group is being treated unfairly, the unfair actions be stopped. There's no duty deriving exclusively from the ethnic or racial background of the group.
If a person said to you, "You must treat me uniquely because I am [insert minority]," you'd rightly think him nuts. Thankfully, no one does that. Our laws instead direct that "You must not treat a person differently because he is [insert]," and "You must give certain opportunities to minorities because they were discriminated against in the past, and we have to even the field."
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I am having a lot of trouble following your argument. But I think it's just because you said exactly what Adder said in his last post in a more convoluted way.
TM
