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Jim Choate ravage at einstein.ssz.com
Mon Dec 10 21:16:27 PST 2001



On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, David Honig wrote:

> At 09:53 AM 12/11/01 +1100, mattd wrote:
> >Tim said its an openly elitist list 
> >once.
> 
> Yes, so is an university.  A meritocracy is necessarily discriminatory.
> 
> Deal with it.

Don't confuse having a high standard of excellence with simple egotism
(which is the majority of the cases with both your examples).

And no, a meritocracy isn't disriminatory. You get what you put into it,
not what somebody else thinks it's worth.


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