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Subject: Re: Moral Arithmetic and AA - (nf)
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Date: Tue, 19-Jul-83 00:04:47 EDT
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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