```It is in YOUR interest to preserve meritocracy, even if it means that you might not be shoved into a position you are unqualified for.```

Here's what I'm hearing, "It's in your interest to have White Man in Power.

How can I make a living when people are taking sledgehammers to the ENTIRE STRUCTURE we're trying to build.

It's not even there anymore. We're trying to REBUILD IT and people are scrapping the construction site.

You're still arguing from your own axioms, @Undead Mockingbird

Okay, kids:

Let's take this example. Remember Lord of the Rings?

What was the reason they decided to throw the Ring into Mount Doom instead of using it for themselves?

If you can answer that question truthfully, you understand why meritocracy is important.

Hell, we're drawing the blueprints, and people are attacking the blueprints with swords and axes.

Stop doing the same thing

What the FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE.

cuz Sauron would win 😛

Sauron did nothing wrong

he had so much merit he could corrupt everyone around him

he deserves to rule middle earth

@Scribblehatch stop building federally

Sauron was supposed to be in the final battle.

what a pretty-boy

Collins is taking too long

Most local to least local

They replaced him with a troll.

Benefits peddling is the thing that destroys the wonderful machinery of meritocracy.

If I am not good enough for MIT then I would rather have to attend another school then making my way into it through cheating.

Because it destroyed the story.

wasn't Sauron just a big troll all along? 😄

How is Meritocracy good if it holds me people back? Any system where my community isn't a proportionate part of the top of unfair, because Equality.
Meritocracy is White Power.

If you don't care about meritocracy then why would you care if it's destroyed?

Letting Aragorn actually fight Sauron felt strange to everyone.

Affirmative action did precisely that:

It tried to achieve an outcome independently of meritocracy.

But it provides benefits to the right people, Me when i go to get a college admissions, job or govt loan.

And it's bad for me long term, because what happens if I get into Harvard because of my skin color?

Eventually I will ruin the value of my own degree because people are getting in for their skin color and not their skills.

this is an argument of pro nobless oblige vs pure meritocrecy

No it does not.

Jesus Christ.

Sure it does

I want a job, I get the job

Benefits are tangible and immediate

exactly

Stop arguing with Mockingbird. He's right.

Yes, that's great and many people did get their jobs that way nowadays.

Look at what it has done for us.

then we need to argue with him so strongly its clear his argumetn can witstand all critisism

Immediate Gratification = What Works in Democracy

Take the corn out of your ears, people.