Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!floyd!whuxlb!pyuxll!eisx!npoiv!npois!hogpc!houxm!ihnp4!ixn5c!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uicsl!preece From: preece@uicsl.UUCP Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Moral Arithmetic and AA - (nf) Message-ID: <2399@uiucdcs.UUCP> Date: Tue, 19-Jul-83 00:04:47 EDT Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.2399 Posted: Tue Jul 19 00:04:47 1983 Date-Received: Thu, 14-Jul-83 05:02:29 EDT Lines: 20 #R:eagle:-99900:uicsl:4300043:000:885 uicsl!preece Jul 12 09:34:00 1983 I can't say now whether I was responding to tim or to the note he was responding to. In any case, I was referring to the popular perception, which is that AA results in less qualified, protected minorities being favored. I have to knowledge of the actual working of AA and do not claim that significantly less qualified people are sometimes selected over more qualified non-minorities. On the other hand, it's hard to see how a quote system, as is sometimes imposed, could fail to have that effect. As I tried to make clear in my previous response, I am not opposed to AA, I am simply pained that such costs are required. I don't think such injustices (reverse discriminations) happen all that often, but I am troubled by any mechanism that causes individual pain as a means to alleviating the pains felt by a general population. But I don't have a better way, either. scott preece