vicious cycle of discrimination?10pt? I have heard an interesting argument against affirmative action that states that if an employer passes over the best qualified candidate for bigoted reasons he/she will lose out to competition either by A)competition snatching said candidate up or B)already having persons as qualified as said candidate. Therefore according to theory no one has an individual interest to make bigoted hiring decisions and/or if some do the winners and those they employ will come out on top.
Now this theory raises two valid points;
1)It is in no ones individual interest to discriminate against the best qualified candidate and
2)it is not in the societies interest to repress the productivity and talents of individual members.
However isn't there one BIG factor that proponents of this theory overlook? Namely that 'best qualified' is a term relative to itself. Out of any group there will be one who is 'best' qualified.
Now onto the matter of how one becomes qualified. And that social exclusion does in fact hamstring an individuals career path. For instance; if you were wrongfully kept from participating in an activity for 5 years and then suddenly were allowed wouldn't there now exist a "legitimate" reason to exclude you? Namely lack of experience? What say you?
harry dunne: if that were so why aren't black people complaining about it.
dead donkeys: that was a thought experiment.
Now this theory raises two valid points;
1)It is in no ones individual interest to discriminate against the best qualified candidate and
2)it is not in the societies interest to repress the productivity and talents of individual members.
However isn't there one BIG factor that proponents of this theory overlook? Namely that 'best qualified' is a term relative to itself. Out of any group there will be one who is 'best' qualified.
Now onto the matter of how one becomes qualified. And that social exclusion does in fact hamstring an individuals career path. For instance; if you were wrongfully kept from participating in an activity for 5 years and then suddenly were allowed wouldn't there now exist a "legitimate" reason to exclude you? Namely lack of experience? What say you?
harry dunne: if that were so why aren't black people complaining about it.
dead donkeys: that was a thought experiment.