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Are Different School Standards Racist?
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<blockquote data-quote="James Snover" data-source="post: 15932225" data-attributes="member: 67454"><p>Jerry Pournelle had a quote along the lines of: "Free men are not equal. Equal men are not free. Freedom is not fair." I've probably messed it up, but the meaning is the same: make everyone equal by law, and no one is free. Make everyone free, and some will rise to the top, and some will stick firmly to the bottom. The successful get the majority of the rewards, and the less successful, and the workaday types, will get jobs. Freedom, equality of outcome, fairness of outcome: You cannot have all three at once. And which ever one you do have, the others are invalidated.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="James Snover, post: 15932225, member: 67454"] Jerry Pournelle had a quote along the lines of: "Free men are not equal. Equal men are not free. Freedom is not fair." I've probably messed it up, but the meaning is the same: make everyone equal by law, and no one is free. Make everyone free, and some will rise to the top, and some will stick firmly to the bottom. The successful get the majority of the rewards, and the less successful, and the workaday types, will get jobs. Freedom, equality of outcome, fairness of outcome: You cannot have all three at once. And which ever one you do have, the others are invalidated. [/QUOTE]
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