Thread: White Firefighters Win Supreme Court Appeal

One of my favourite quotes has some relevance here...

“Measure what is important; don’t make important what you can measure”

Robert S McNamara (US Secretary of State for Defence during the Vietnam War) to his air force chiefs on his discovery that they were using the number of buildings destroyed by bombs as a critical success factor.

Originally Posted by Bruno

The same situation will exist with people coming from a line of lawyers, policemen, special forces units, or whatever. Even in martial arts, there are few people with better opportunities than the sons of martial arts grand masters. They get tutoring from the moment they can walk, they learn all the good stuff and they are next in line for the title.

I come from a long line of jerks.

Actually, I was going to make the same post as Bruno, but use Irish police families as my example.
Since the Irish were strongly discriminated against at one time, and now for dynasties in law enforcement.

The debate here, as I see it, is egalitarianism.
Equality should mean equality of opportunity, not equality of outcome, and the two cannot exist together.