Thanks! I appreciate that. I'm logic-ing as best I can, but I'm definitely not a sociologist. I had to read more about "equality of outcome" because I wasn't familiar with the concept.

I concede though, that some methods of affirmative action would appear to be local attempts to enforce "equality of outcome," but I don't think this is the goal of affirmative action campaigns. If anything, it's a measure taken (locally) to create an environment that can support equal opportunity (locally). As society approaches having equality of opportunity, I imagine that this strategy would lose its utility and be discarded.